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NPR is decidedly UNBIASED. Since it doesn't pander toward the conservative POV like Fox news, it is automatically considered to be suspect. I've listened to it many times where caller listeners will phone in, express a progressive POV and then squelched by the interviewer in an effort to be neutral.
NPR is decidedly UNBIASED. Since it doesn't pander toward the conservative POV like Fox news, it is automatically considered to be suspect. I've listened to it many times where caller listeners will phone in, express a progressive POV and then squelched by the interviewer in an effort to be neutral.
I agree, but to conservatives the news is propaganda. They want conservative propaganda promoted to counteract what they perceive to be liberal propaganda. This is the stated point of conservative news stations, magazines, papers, talk show hosts, and think tanks.
They are not seeking to discuss reality. They are seeking to view every news event as a way to spin it for their conservative ideology. This is what they believe the news media is doing for "liberals" taking every news event and spinning for their liberal ideology.
A public that pays less than 3% of its bills and doesn't like to hear much except things that reinforce their biases. It's sad really.
That is the big problem. There are a whole lot of drooling idiots who think that reporting anything outside of their comfort zone even if completely true and factually correct is some how "liberal" when it is in fact just actual journalism. Something which they're not used to over at the propaganda factories of Fox or talk radio. Never the less these poor brain damaged people have been taught by their masters that some how they're paying a huge amount for NPR even though the government only pays 3% of their bills and the government gives just about any large company imaginable more subsidies.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that when one is watching or listening to a media outfit and they say nothing but positive things about one side and negative things about the other side what they are presenting is bogus.....
That would pretty much just be Fox and Talk Radio and nothing else. I would hesitate to even put MSNBC in that category but if you think NPR or PBS is in that category then you have never listened to them and must be on crack to make such outlandish and completely baseless claims.
A public that pays less than 3% of its bills and doesn't like to hear much except things that reinforce their biases. It's sad really.
False, while the direct funding they receive may be that small the indirect funding from the stations paying for their programming also supported by tax dollars is substantial. Besides the taxpayer supported funding from the stations there is plethora of other subsidies they get.
I love NPR, listen to them during my morning and evening drive. Some stories do lean a bit to the left, but there are so many others that have nothing to do with politics, which I enjoy.
About a third of national journalists (34%)
and somewhat fewer local journalists (23%)
describe themselves as liberals; that compares
with 19% of the public in a May survey conducted
by the Pew Research Center. Moreover, there is
a relatively small number of conservatives at
national and local news organizations. Just 7% of
national news people and 12% of local journalists
describe themselves as conservatives, compared with
a third of all Americans.
What a great super way to MAKE NPR biased ! Have the advertisers in control!
SHEESH! How stupid!
Then , the advertiser with the most money controls the message.....get it???? Get it!?
Having PUBLIC radio means they don't have to taint their programs for advertisers...get IT!?
But now the new master is the politician that is going to support their cause, get it?
Bias in the media is not acceptable whether its a company controlling the message or a politician through promises of funding but certainly the taxpayer supported political bias is the greater of two evils.
No, they're editorially independent and 3% of funding simply does not let anyone dictate editorial policy. Hell, the BBC, CBC, ABC (Australian not the American one), and the SABC all get 100% state funding and all are completely editorially independent due to the same fire wall NPR has so you're just factually incorrect.
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