How would one ever discover that a given podcaster is right wing if they are apolitical?
Comment on Are there any good, apolitical right-leaning podcasts out there?
ptz@dubvee.org 3 months agoCould be right-leaning topic-wise but not getting into the politics of it. If I had a good example, I’d have replied with it. lol
As a left-leaning analogue, NPR is pretty apolitical, but the stories they cover and the words/phrasing they choose to use are designed to appeal to those who lean left.
yarr@feddit.nl 3 months ago
otp@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Dog whistles? Jokes that punch down?
yarr@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Wouldn’t that count as political?
otp@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Not explicitly. The whole point of dog whistles is that they’re not supposed to sound political so someone can hide their intentions from people who don’t know and signal their beliefs to the in-group.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Uh… NPR absolutely gets into the politics of things. Maybe not a deep dive, but 90% of what I hear that isn’t music I’d describe 100% as politics.
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Sounds like too may only be listening to news shows.
Fresh Air, This American Life, Car Talk, Something Wild are all largely non-political, but many cover liberal topics, but not from a political standpoint.
They also tend to cover factual stories about science and the environment, which— unfortunately for the right—tends to involve topics that the right wing have made political.