I listen to NPR every day. I like it alot for non-political stories but it's ragingly liberal.



Even when it pretends to cover all the bases it picks and chooses or carefully structures stories to always side with liberal agenda or to slant it that way...for instance interviewing 3 or 4 different anti-gun liberals, giving them ample soundbites, even dropping in ambient sounds (a subtle and clever tactic that conveys "honest" or "real" interviews) and then as the story is wrapping up giving a "but not everyone thinks this way, Mr. So-and-So from the Pro Gun blog no one's ever heard about has this to say" and then a 10 second blurb that doesn't even contradict the story.

HA!

Those two turds are so far gone it is not even funny. Just the fact they can spew what they do with a straight face tells you all
you need to know.

What's funny is that there are liberals here who'd really like to defend NPR as being centrist, but they think they're still in the closet.

Yes, NPR is quite a ways left of center.

Of course it is. I even listen to NPR.

It's not overtly liberal like MSNBC or Huffpo. It is much more subtle. You can listen to an isolated story and think "Well that was fair". But then after a while you start to notice the stories they cover, the guests they have, and subtle tones.

It is definitely liberal. It is run by some who think they are honest and good at presenting both sides, and some who know they aren't but make a good show of it.

was this the "taking money from the Muslim Brotherhood" deal?

This is the truth!  I would say that even as recently as 3 or 4 years ago they at least tried to seem unbiased but now it is full-on propaganda.  They usually have 3-4 communists guest speakers and one liberal to give the centrists viewpoint.  That crackpot Diane Reehm is full dress communist.  The rest of the programming is white straight male bashing, pro-minority, politically correct washed up hippy drivel.

to a liberal NPR is the only thing that is right.

NPR isn't a radio station.  They produce news and other content which local Public Radio stations purchase.  NPR itself gets a miniscule amount of funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) - they even admitted that if that money were to dry up they would barely notice it.  Local stations do use CPB money to buy NPR programming, so in that way it can be argues it's supported by public funds.

NPR isn't the only producer - there is Public Radio Exchange, American Public Media, and 3 or 4 more alphabet designations.  They are almost universally rabidly left; the only thing they produce that's tolerable is "Marketplace", and that is left of center as well.

NPR has basically 3 types of programming: News, Opinion, and Culture.

News: "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered" are the only real news programs.  They pretend to be balanced but are to the left of center.  They aren't nearly as bad as CNBC or ProPublica or Pacifica; their main bias is more in story selection and subtle bias.

Opinion: Dianne Rheem, and the rest of the mid-day programming - unrelentingly leftist as a whole.  One exception (and a limited one) is "Fresh Air."  If Terry Gross is interviewing someone who is not political or writing about something political, she's a thoughtful interviewer and host.  No, really - I've heard her do interviews with actors about their series or movie and they just talked about their roles, background, etc. - no politics.  If however the topic has any political content whatsoever she is a raging leftist.

Culture: "Car Talk", the news quiz, This American Life, etc.  Very high quality and mostly neutral.  I've never heard the Car Talk guys mention politics, and the news quiz show skewers everyone pretty well.  This American Life leans left in story selection, but when the topic is neutral they generally don't inject politics into it.

One show that I don't have any opinion on is Prairie Home Companion, since I have never actually listened to it.

Yes they have a strong liberal bias, but they can and do call liberal politicians on their bullshit from time to time..  Making Hilary Clinton squirm was just delicious.

They are as Liberal as Fox News and the like.

Libs had a shit Romney/Ryan would cut taxes, NPR, big bird, planned parenthood, medicaid, obamacare, privatize SS etc. Unfortunately Cass Sunstein's army of hard-core social progressive liberal debaters helped Obama get 4 more years in 4 swing States, Oh, Fl, Va, NH  by less than 500k votes.


Romney Budget Proposals Would Necessitate Very Large Cuts in Medicaid, Education, Health Research and Other Programs
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3658



The Romney campaign’s mantra that Obama had “waged a war on coal” proved effective in southeastern Ohio. The five counties in which Romney recorded his biggest percentage vote gains over Bush’s 2004 take were all in southeastern Ohio.

But political observers widely agreed that Romney’s opposition to the $82?billion federal auto bailout in 2009 cost him dearly in Ohio’s industrial north.

In 2008, Romney wrote a column for The New York Times opposing the bailout and arguing for a managed bankruptcy. The Times headlined the column “Let Detroit go bankrupt.” With an estimated 850,000 Ohio jobs tied to the auto industry, the Obama campaign used that headline to bludgeon Romney.

“It allowed us to form a core of a narrative to define Romney,” Pickrell said. “It’s so rare to have an issue on the state level that powerful.”

The effect was evident
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/11/08/auto-bailout-high-turnout-helped-obama-win-ohio.html

I you have ever watched or heard "Washington Week" moderated by Gwen Ifill you will know beyond a doubt that it is flat out liberal swill.  She sucks Obama Administration cock.  The whole show is nothing but a big BHO fan club.

If NPR was center they would've brought both left and right when Sandy Hook happened

If I remember they only had big left wing people Bloomberg was one and all they did was say how the gun industry was evil. NPR was in agreement

What he said.

Kill a commie for mommy.  


ETA: Who are the 12 leftists who voted no?

They don't call it National Peoples Radio for nothin'.

As American news outlets go, NPR is about as good as it gets*.



* please note that nothing in this statement implies that NPR or any other American news outfit is actually producing a high quality impartial product.

I stopped listening to "All Things Considered" because they belabor stories beyond the point of boredom. They'll take a story, that nobody is interested in anyway, and flog that dead horse until it rots.

And yeah, they're fairly far to the left. Not that there's anything wrong with that as long as you're aware of it.

The worst thing about their leftiness is that people think they're unbiased.  

I'm not sure if that or the fact that they're subsidized by tax dollars is worse.

I enjoy NPR - at least a lot of it. They are very liberal - I've noticed they seem to be getting even worse the last few years.

Buddy at work used to call it "National Palestinian Radio". That's a little weird, they seem to have a lot of jews.

During the news programs you would need a hand clicker to keep track of how many times they say Obama - his name is mentioned in nearly every news story, no matter what it's about. Especially on ATC and Morning Edition, but sometimes also on Marketplace.

In the interviews anyone with a non-hetero orientation gets quizzed deeply about their relationships, when they knew they were gay/lesbian/bi/trans, how people treat them, how they came out, and on and on. They do this whether it has anything to do with the story or not.Terry Gross and Marty Moss Coane are terrible about it, but it's on the news shows as well. For hetero guests - sex or orientation or relationships almost never is mentioned.

Ethnicity - these people make a bigger deal over ethnicity than anyone I have met. Tell Me More and "the code switch team" are ludicrous - I can't listen to them.

During pledge week they go on and on about how fair they are, how balanced their coverage is. They also have no interviews with the radical race types, the Democratic leadership or the very out there homosexuals. Also - no pledge drive during tell-me more or code switch. Programming is right back to normal after pledge week.

The BBC tends to be pretty good. Lefty, but interesting stories.

It's just shitty that I pay for it at all. I'd be happy if the local channel just dropped NPR completely; I like classical music but they fill all the empty spots with their damn news programs.

They also indeed tend to focus on one side and acknowledge the other in passing. I've pretty much said F it to their reporting after hearing a couple very poorly done pieces on things I actually cared about.

It beats cable news by a long shot in adhering to the classical journalism tradition.  Most of them are no doubt liberal - as most journalist are, but their reporting is more objective, thorough, and insightful than the 10 second sound bites and political theater that makes up cable news on both the right and left.

Since Talk of the Nation got canned I've got no reason to listen.

They weren't as bad years ago but they're like VOA for the democratic party anymore.  There was a fight over their funding during GWB's second term and I think they lost some federal dollars.  After that they went full bore party line mouthpiece for the left.  It's fucking bad anymore and there isn't another damn thing on the radio worth listening to.

I liked it when they weren't cheerily lying for Obama or beating the climate change horse or both every fifteen seconds.  They talked about cool stuff.  Damn shame.

And fuck me, the seventeen or so times a year where they black out 75% of their programming for enragingly repetitive begathons?  

Even before they went insane those begathons ensured I never gave them a dime.  It doesn't make me want to give them money, it makes me want to kick a puppy.

FYI Top 100 Liberal Progressive Websites


No. Website Alexa Rank
1 MSNBC/MSN 9
2 CNN 60
3 The New York Times 97
4 The Huffington Post 166
5 The Washington Post 367
6 Boston Globe 509
7 ABC News 515
8 TIME 530
9 SF Gate 640
10 Gawker 975
11 NBC News 1218
12 Newsweek 1267
13 Slate 1481
14 Salon 1854
15 Tree Hugger 2336
16 Daily Beast 2473
17 Rolling Stone 2484
18 US News & World Report 3210
19 The Atlantic 3253
20 DailyKos 3790
21 Independent Media Center 3802
22 Democratic Underground 4058
23 Talking Points Memo-TPM 4422
24 New Yorker 6273
25 Organizing for America 6282
26 Village Voice 7613
27 AlterNet 7638
28 The Raw Story 8035
29 Think Progress 11064
30 Mother Jones 11892
31 Crooks and Liars 11939
32 Media Matters 14352
33 Common Dreams 15393
34 FiveThirtyEight 15729
35 FireDogLake 16662
36 Buzz Flash 17792
37 TowleRoad 19319
38 The Nation 19764
39 TNR-The New Republic 19949
40 Wonkette 20367
41 MoveOn 22067
42 Anti-War 26486
43 Planned Parenthood 29033
44 Politifact 29318
45 Little Green Footballs 29504
46 The American Prospect 29688
47 AirAmerica 30028
48 TruthDig 30180
49 OpEd News 30197
50 Amnesty International 33274
51 Feministing 33842
52 Truthout 34672
53 Washington Monthly 35157
54 Information Clearinghouse 35161
55 Credo Action 35229
56 World Socialist Web Site 35634
57 ACLU 34955
58 FactCheck 40183
59 Joe.My.God 40342
60 Buzz Machine 40986
61 Bad Subjects 41074
62 America Blog 41367
63 Michael Moore 44183
64 Open Left 45413
65 The Plum Line/Who Runs Govt 48471
66 Center for American Progress 49368
67 BartCop 51230
68 Balloon Juice 52824
69 Eschaton 56941
70 Brookings Institute 64838
71 DrudgeRetort 66269
72 Democrats 68425
73 Shakesville 73059
74 Talk Left 72212
75 Hullabaloo 74024
76 Utne Reader 78516
77 Informed Comment 80055
78 ZMag 81939
79 Democratic Party 83008
80 MyDD 83126
81 Pam’s House Blend 83192
82 Booman Tribune 83989
83 The Young Turks 84206
84 Brad Blog 96309
85 Oliver Willis 96527
86 Smirking Chimp 100113
87 The Bilerico Project 101025
88 NewsHounds 104100
89 Blue Oregon 106211
90 Act Blue 107306
91 Rod 2.0 108097
92 The Mudflats 119194
93 Liberaland 126123
94 Urban Institute 134484
95 BlueMass Group 135497
96 Southern Poverty Law Center 136234
97 Public Policy Polling 138090
98 Feminista 146567
99 Sadly, No! 149049
100 Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting 152078

This

You did the right thing by just walking away. Not even worth the argument.

 

If it's not kissing the asses of Jesus and Ronnie Regan, it's pinko commie propaganda.

At least according to many right-wingers.

I'm pretty far from a hard core right winger, and NPR leans left. You have to be deaf not to hear that, and I'm a daily listener.



 

I'm glad I'm not the only arfcommer who enjoys it. Yes its left, but the non political stories I enjoy. I also appreciate the fact it doesn't cater to the lowest common denominator like nearly every other news organisation. I'm as libertarian as the next guy on arf, but fox news turns me off with their flashy sensationalism.

The site you're looking for is number 22 on the list above.

They are so cute when they are young.





 

NPR is super mega liberal.

It's National People's Radio, Tovarishch.

Coworker is clearly an idiot, regardless of our own personal political views.   CNN in particular has a long history of doing really sleazy shit.

It is generally liberal, but to what degree depends on the locale. It is largely a bunch of syndicated shows, and NPR Phoenix will be way to the right of NPR in the bay area.

Measured by that ruler, there really isn't much to enjoy.

Even the "market" news is agenda-driven - Typically, it involves environmentalism, the impact of "undocumented immigrants" on the economy, or some mom-and-pop business owner who has decided to "do the right thing" by paying his employees more than the minimum wage.

Virtually every show - and every story - is designed to promote liberalism / progressiveism / socialism / communism.

it gets called Communist News Network around these parts.