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Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by audiogatorjim, May 25, 2025.

  1. audiogatorjim

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    I just want to ask this question. In no way am I trying to stir anything up; I’ll be gone after I read a few responses, if any. Thanks!

    The question is;
    As it has been for say, the last four years, what do you think (%), of larger public tv/radio (like PBS and NPR) slant their various shows to politically generally?

    __% moderate
    __% conservative
    __% left/liberal

    100% total

    Feel free to alter the format if need be. Not looking for long-winded diatribes please. Thanks

    Go Gators!
     
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  2. pogba

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    Need a stat for MAGA because they aren’t conservatives
     
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  3. audiogatorjim

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    Ok, anyone can add whatever column they believe is accurate.
    I could have added to kindly not respond with an anti Trump post but I chose not to because that’s not the info I was looking for nor do I have time to read all of those. Thanks.
     
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    They are definitely “liberal”, but based on my limited listening they don’t seem to speak much politics, probably spend outsized programming time talking about “the arts”. At least that’s the local programming.
     
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    Don’t know the %s, but you can find a lot more conservative views on public radio/tv than you can in the leftist republican meme coin dork party
     
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  7. G8tas

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    That's true. I turned it on the other day and they were talking about how the brain works with memories and another time I was listening and they were talking about an issue with the local drinking water. I would assume that most right wingers on here assume that they talk about Trump being bad and DEI bathrooms
     
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    I thought Trump and Muskrat did away with public tv/radio.
     
  9. docspor

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    my wife freq watches the PBS newshour & she leaves the car radio on pbs. Catching about 5 min of radio, I heard a snippet of the minutemen's history lesson pt. II during a transition. pretty cool.
     
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    Lean left, but without hours of opinion entertainment shows, how does one know. Or maybe they are the masters of subliminal propaganda.
     
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    Their opinion pieces and I assume their staff is probably left but honestly most of what I hear is basic news without political slant but is being in the middle far to the left for MAGA?
     
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  12. pogba

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    Your stats will be meaningless because the parties aren’t aligned to any definition of “liberal or conservative” so any data you gather is useless in these categories. What is “conservative” about restricting free trade and increasing the debt $3t? This would be viewed as how in your stats? Anti trump doesn’t mean anti conservative.

    couldn’t care less about what you “have time to read” when you are asking others for input. Ridiculous
     
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    10% moderate
    1% conservative
    89% Leftists
     
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    I love it when the other side tries to tell us what we on the Right are supposed to be, or who we are politically.

    This is like the atheists (not you per se) telling us what Jesus Christ was all about.
     
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  16. docspor

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    Well, I am not from the other side. MAGA like jesus are commies.

    p.s. YOU posted this 9 mins ago.
    This is the epitome of projection coming from the communists, with Fascist tactics, Leftists.
     
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    So, now you claim to be a social marxist. Same ballpark.
     
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    The “other side” aka a lifelong Christian Republican who doesn’t believe in isolationism, running up the national debt and getting rid of Constitutional protections. Whatever you MAGA folks believe isn’t conservative
     
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