Story -- this title is obviously untrue as Trump stated he wants the Jan 6 Committee members jailed. This is a continuation of the troubling signs at NPR and losing its formerly unbiased credibility in becoming just another MSM rag.

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/07/g-s1-37354/syrian-government-appears-to-have-fallen-in-stunning-end-to-long-rule-of-assad-family

Ironic that Sarah defends Trump and the right, and she also ends up on Kash Patel’s enemy list.

What are these safeguards she refers to that will keep Trump from going after his political enemies - I don’t see them.

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/06/nx-s1-5213703/queer-review-daniel-craig

Reaching out to the hivemind here. Maybe 2 years ago I listened to a podcast about the USSRs transition to a “capitalist” type economy.

They talked about glasnost, perestroika, how the government issued coupons for parts of government owned companies. One crazy part was some construction executive whose capital was a pile of brick that he could trade.

I seem to remember it was on my NPROne feed. Maybe a planet money episode? Or some economic topic on another show maybe?

Does anyone have any idea what episode I might be remembering?

i just got a bunch of the podcasts from NPR+ into my phone's podcast app. Is there a way to have the NPR+ versions on my Echo devices too?

She asked the question four different ways and each time they completely avoided any real answer or accountability.

THIS is why people are dechurching. Y’all just spew words without any action. You don’t care about community, you care about the 40 trillion dollars of lost income or whatever it was, because we all know you wouldn’t be putting that money back into the community.

I am a sustaining member but I can not stand the seemingly more frequent campaigns every several minutes when they do their drives.

Brian Lehrer, the host, briefly mentioned the shooting at the top of the show yesterday, and it sure did seem like there was going to be a segment on it today but they covered other issues.

My guess--just a guess--is that WNYC producers are aware of the public sentiment surrounding this guy's death--tragic that a father, husband, friend died, but not that a CEO died--and were uncomfortable with platforming what seems to be the general opinion that this guy, more or less, had it coming.

I consider myself pretty well-informed politically, but I had no idea the scope of how many people insurance companies were essentially responsible for killing by denying coverage. Yes, I was aware it happened, but only in an aggregate way, and definitely did not have a clear understanding that millions of people are dying early so that insurance companies and execs can get rich. No, I never thought insurance companies were good, or even benign, but having read lots of comments from people about how their loved ones were denied coverage has opened my eyes.

I am also somewhat insulated from others' reality in that, while I have a chronic health condition that does get pretty severe sometimes, I live in a blue state that makes it easier to get health insurance. I would guess that if I lived in a redder state, like Missouri or Kentucky, etc, I would probably have experienced denials and would know other people who had been denied health coverage for the sake of profits.

For those who don't know, The Brian Lehrer Show is a daily call in show, with 4-5 segments on a variety of local, state, nation, and sometimes worldwide issues. Brian is a good host, who I think mostly gets it right (entirely subjective, of course), and the callers comes from across the political spectrum, and the screeners do a good job with giving voice to a lot of opinions. I hear a lot of listener opinions that I strongly agree with (I voted for Bernie in the two presidential primaries he ran in).

Anyhow, I hope the show does end up covering the shooting, because there is so much to discuss: The obvious disparity in resources being allocated to finding this shooter versus the shooter of anybody else in the city (reminds me of a Kent Brockman quote: "Dozens of people are gunned down in Springfield everyday, but until now none of them were important"), how health insurance companies are the real "death panels", the way Americans have just been forced to accept this system, and how the middle and working class (not to leave the upper class out of this, because I am sure there are some of you who agree with the necessity of what happened), whether red or blue, don't really see the tragedy the media is trying to make out of this.

All comments welcome.