Wow, so President Biden didn’t lie during the debate?

Tried to like this but have finally given up. Will stick with the NYT's The Daily, a vastly better podcast. NPR news once was the gold standard. Now just silly--and bad--anchors being "cool and hip," proving they are neither. Very sad time for the once great Morning Edition, which has also become un-listenable.

Love you all & have been tuning in for a good 4/5 years now but I’ve been wondering if we’ll get coverage on the atrocities going on in Sudan, the Congo, Tigray and other regions in the East?

I think the podcast is quite good. There are some episodes that have focused on Israel’s war against Hamas that doesn’t mention the reason there is a war. I’ll be listening, awaiting and not hear October 7.

I used to be too plugged into the news. I still like to know what’s going on, but I don’t need to fill half my day listening to folks talk about things outside my control. This little blast of news is just enough to keep me in the loop, and the friendly collegiality the hosts have is endearing and fun to listen to. I also might be a bit of an Ayesha Rascoe fan girl.

I enjoy how they report things that anger both the extremist left and right! Got to be doing something right. 😁 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

The most ridiculous extrapolation about children using phones I’ve ever heard in my life. The lunch room is quiet because everyone is texting each other? Please don’t go show your boomer. That is not accurate and clearly blatant extrapolation. “They use their phone up to 43 minutes a day, it’s like a whole chemistry class”, sure but it’s not proof that it’s during chemistry. There are multiple minutes in between class periods, plus lunch, and after that if they’re using their phone in class it isn’t taking up the whole period. Boomers & Gen X forgot how bad they were in school and think they’re allow to set new standards for rules they clearly don’t understand.

I love this podcast and listen to it with my boyfriend every morning while I get ready. Great info on daily events. NPR is the best!

As reliable as Pravda when it comes to US imperial interests. At least Pravda journalists either had some real socialist excuse to unconditionally shill for one side, or the real political objective of saving themselves from Gulags; what’s their excuse?

Listen every day for the perfect bite size of news to keep me up to date. The hosts are amazing at keeping things light up top whilst diving in to the important topics of the day

Great show

Funded by Qatar?

I can’t take Aleisha Roscoe’s voice anymore. It’s just an unpleasant annoying accent. It’s not regional or unique. Just irritating and grating. Sorry but it reminds me of Sassafras on Amos and Andy. It’s hard to take news reporting seriously with that voice.

The theme song is cringy and outdated. The Sunday host AR’s voice is also cringy and annoying.

Not a single word on how hezbollah as lit northern Israel on fire but somehow they have a reporter in Gaza… wasn’t Israel blocking all journalists? lol what a joke. No reporting on Hamas storing aid in the Rafah tent camp and the ammunitions exploding, which caused that fire that killed so many civilians. It was Hamas! But not one word about it from NPR. National Palestine Radio.

With all the things going on (including the president’s son being in trial), you choose a story about a flag?

Listening to the episodes you obviously hear the biased opinion of the editors spewing into the program. It’s laughable the amount of disinformation and lack of the whole story included in daily pieces. Listen to MORNING WIRE for a neutral show that can provide information that is accurate and not following a political narrative

Its a nice summary of current events but 20-25% of the time presented in a biased fashion, which for “national public radio” is a little too high in my opinion.

I love the light conversations. Smart, consistent, reliable, relatable and honest.

Power packed with content, Up First is concise still covering the main points. Plus, the team always gives a quick summation; it is what I have time for and it is excellent! Thank you for your quality and commitment to excellence!

Unfollowed - no honor to the great American holiday. I’ll be listening to Morning Wire only now.

It's weird. NPR has more ads than NYT, WSJ, Etc in terms of talk vs ad time. Also I really dislike Ayesha Rascoe's tone and voice. It's jarring and abrasive compared to the soothing voice of others on the podcast.

Being a daily listener for years for its good journalism based on facts and impartiality. However, this doesn’t seem the case anymore when it comes about the Israel-Hamas war. The media coverage about this conflict is a disfavor to the world. When will NPR start talking about the real cause of this war, all the atrocities Hamas has been doing to jews and to their own people for years, raising suicide bombers. Israel is not fighting Palestines, it’s fighting Hamas, terrorists that are hiding behind their own children and women as human shields. Hamas has the power to stop the war by surrendering but they have no interest in stopping the killing of their own people. As said once “we will only have peace with Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us”. It’s great that European countries want to support a Palestine state, but are they willing to fight with Israel to eliminate Hamas and free up Palestine to be its own state? It’s very easy to criticize from a distance.

Bunch of Zionist losers complicit in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. The people will remember. Keep excusing these monsters as your report from their made up country you pathetic excuses for human beings.

Add an afternoon version!

A pod for people who want to know the mainstream headlines, but don’t have the time or interest in hearing all the details. You could probably get the same amount of info by glancing at the front page of the NY Times

It’s the same topic nearly every single day. There’s other topics that need attention.

Ahhhhhh! It’s grating on the ears! It’s a horrible sound! It really is that simple. There is no complicated social story here. It’s just a terrible noise! I wish that I could stop the Sunday downloads (and now she’s on weekdays as well?!) so you could see that this show is not listened to. I have to mark it as played to make it go away. Just decided to unsubscribe.

Can we please find someone who speaks proper English instead of Ayesha Roscoe….. not only does she make grammatical errors every time she’s on, she does a great job of “acting”completely clueless regarding most topics covered… there’s gotta be someone better. When she come on the show, it’s as if she won a contest and they’re letting her have a day where a fan gets to actually do the broadcast lol its awful The presence of unprofessional journalism overwhelms every episode. The show has become an embarrassment

I subscribed for the news - not for the snarky political comments and clear favor toward one party. I'm pretty middle of the road, but the comments from the male-speaker are beyond annoying. Will throw my time at Morning Wire which sticks to news and not being "funny".

This is a quick way to get the gist of the top 3 or so news stories of the day. I believe the commentary and spin of the stories is unfortunately left leaning like the rest of NPR, but I also believe it to be a credible source for most issues.

Hoping ‘Up Second’, and maybe ‘Up Third’ are future daily shows:)

I have been a faithful listener for years. My family are also regular monetary supporters of public radio and for that reason I’m not paying for a subscription. Apparently that means that instead of listening while I get ready for my day, episodes are released later and later rendering them useless to me by the time I’m able to listen. I’m disappointed.

It’s a genocide. Not a war. not a conflict. Hope your sponsors are happy

I used to listen to many of the NPR podcasts. I just can’t do it anymore. I’m a liberal, never voted for Trump, but I do think that journalists cannot let their own POV dictate the stories. This has got worse over time and I wish that NPR will get it back together someday, and get back to doing journalism not trying to preach. I unsubscribed all of the NPR shows.

I listen every day!

Oh there were similar student protests in 1968? That’s soo interesting, I wonder what they were about? I’m sure the police came out of that era looking like angels, right? Sincerely, now— it is despicable to cover students’ protests against genocide by only getting statements from the police who have been brutalizing them. Grow a spine and get on the right side of history.

Shame on you for this copaganda and emphasis on explaining away militarized policing rather than featuring the student protestors confronted with disproportionately huge force in the face of peaceful protest. You exist to placate liberals and put them at ease with the status quo.

The show is great, and I listen almost every morning, but there are a few too many ads for how long the episodes are.

Unable to listen without paying. Very annoying. Listening on Spotify instead but this feels like a cash grab

Descent coverage. Unfortunate that over the years the show has gotten more and more biased. Reporting no longer reflects the public’s views.

I have listened loyally since the beginning and because I won’t subscribe, I can’t play the episode. Public media?

It has been disheartening and disappointing to listen to one sided NPR daily news I have stopped listening to it and will unsubscribe NPR has showed their is no Free press neither free speech!

I enjoy the concise presentation of the day’s top news stories. They’re not liberal biased; they’re truth biased. If that bothers you I don’t know what we can do to make your feelings whole.

The news should be provided in an unbiased manner, but Up First shows its bias loud and clear. So clearly anti-Israel. Your reporting on the sexual offences against Israeli women on October 7 was shameful. Casting doubt and only reporting on the minimal question marks within the UN report (which itself was problematic). Every Israel-Gaza news story is always first on the podcast, yet this one was placed at the end, the introduction was even biased leaving it open as to whether the report found sexual violence (it did… which should be a shock to absolutely no one). Take note: Jewish Voice for Peace does NOT speak on behalf of Jewish people! You can 'tick a box' and pat yourselves on the back for being 'balanced' by interviewing a rep from Jewish Voice for Peace.

I have, for decades, listened to NPR for my morning news. It seems as if those days are ending. Where is the news? It is mostly highly curated segments that are basically opinion pieces. NPR, you are dangerously close to being what most of us hate about Fox “News.”

I have listened to this show for multiple years and I try to have an open mind on every topic. The show has become so biased that it will completely skip important stories because they think it may shed a negative light on the left. I’m not sure how our country has gotten to a point that this is acceptable for a reputable news agency. I will continue a search for an unbiased news recap to give me the facts and let me decide for myself where my opinion lies.

In today’s show (4/21), Harper’s Ferry is in the state of WEST Virginia.

The episode represents some of the finest reporting of which humans are capable of.

I saw Katherine Maher’s TED talk and was shocked. I counted on NPR as one of my primary news sources. I can’t do that if the CEO does not believe in truth. Hearing her talk about the “Wikipedia model” was galling. Is she serious? Wikipedia is fine but not a source for facts. If the new goal for NPR is to become like Wikipedia that is devastating. I hope NPR can get her out before she does too much damage. Until they do, I will be avoiding anything NPR