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Megan Hazen ([personal profile] meganursula) wrote2009-02-16 01:47 pm

mission accomplished

my NPR station is playing a show right now, that is basically a compilation of radio clips from Bush's presidency. I am listening to it because i am at work today, trying to get things done, and no one else is around, so i had the radio on. I wanted to turn off this show, but i think it might be good for me to listen - get some perspective? some education?

Thing is, it keeps making me cry.



..

Is this all NPR slant? Or has it been a particularly bad decade? Or is it just that i don't remember how horrible the rest of the centuries of human existence have been?

[identity profile] safetybitch.livejournal.com 2009-02-17 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
We don't remember past decades, but we do remember eight years ago. The last eight years really have been that bad - maybe not in comparison with cycles of bad such as the world wars, but bad compared to the peace and prosperity (and total excess) of the decades we grew up in. Americans are soft, so we are being hit hard - but so are other civilised countries. Australia just had to pass a big economic stimulus package as well. Of course, some could trace the problems with the global situation right back to us, so... yeah, the last eight years have pretty much sucked.

[identity profile] cheesepuppet.livejournal.com 2009-02-17 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
I think some slant is certainly unavoidable, but yeah, the last eight years has been that bad.

[identity profile] wandelrust.livejournal.com 2009-02-17 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think NPR's actually nearly as slanted as it's perceived to be (anyone else remember the week-long dote fest they ran when Reagan died?); I've heard them skewer Democrats who have screwed up just as much as Republicans. They do tend to be a bit more in-depth and dig a little deeper, and for some reason when contrasted with the echo-chamber of the cable networks, that gets interpreted as liberal.

Compare them with, say, MSNBC though. MSNBC, particularly Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann, have come out as the inverse of Fox News, they have an obvious and unabashed liberal slant. It's nothing like NPR.

All that being said, yeah, the past eight years have been bad. It's a little hard to see sometimes, cause personally my life is awesome and I haven't been affected by most of the misfortunes and mistakes of the past decade, but I think the naughts will go down as one of the dark, dark periods in American history.