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Can anyone point specifically to NPR commentators or others on the staff of NPR who have gotten away with statements/views that were critical of Christianity or the Right and still works there? That is the inverse of Juan Williams experience concern Muslims.
Ira Glass: Journalism, in general, reporters tend to be Democrats and tend to be more liberal than the public as a whole, sure. But that doesn't change what is going out over the air. And I feel like, well, let's measure the product.
Since NPR clearly has a liberal and biased agenda I believe it only fair they give back the millions the government gave them to start their business. You think that will happen?
Danielle Kurtzleben at U.S. News & World Report crunched some numbers of federal campaign contributions and discovered that the NPR Board and the board of the NPR Foundation are -- surprise, surprise -- much more likely to donate to Democrats.
NPR host Michele Norris is temporarily stepping down from the afternoon news show "All Things Considered" because her husband has taken a senior role in President Barack Obama's re-election campaign.
NPR will no longer distribute the affiliate-produced program "World of Opera" to about 60 stations across the country because the show host helped organize an ongoing Washington protest, a network official said Friday evening.
I don't get this. I love NPR, but many of my conservative friends think that it is left biased. I am not naive enough to believe that media is always straight down the middle, but I don't find NPR being that partial. Heck, they are funded by the Cato Institute, which is a pro-capitalist, libertarian institution.
There news features seem pretty open to all interpretations, and how can their artistic programming (jazz programming, Thistle and Shamrock, etc.) even be considered political at all? Any thoughts?
Because NPR tells the truth and to a Conservative, the truth hurts!
1) I agree about not funding NPR with tax dollars.
2) Most of their programming is non-political.
3) They are somewhat biased but not terrible. The worst I've personally heard is allowing some of the Hunter studies about Florida and Missouri insurance to be presented as fact and not rebutted. Both studies were horrible, one commissioned by Christ for political reasons and the other by the Lawyers bar trying to fight a tort-reform push.
Again, very little of their programming is politically oriented.
I don't get this. I love NPR, but many of my conservative friends think that it is left biased. I am not naive enough to believe that media is always straight down the middle, but I don't find NPR being that partial. Heck, they are funded by the Cato Institute, which is a pro-capitalist, libertarian institution.
There news features seem pretty open to all interpretations, and how can their artistic programming (jazz programming, Thistle and Shamrock, etc.) even be considered political at all? Any thoughts?
I wish there was a better way to fund them, but without government funding you'd just trade one form of bias for another - and it would have commercials, too.
Bias or not, I find NPR to be higher quality and more professional than the typical dumbed-down crap we see from the usual media outlets.
You can never escape bias, but at least you won't have to listen to idiots as long as NPR is around.
NPR host Michele Norris is temporarily stepping down from the afternoon news show "All Things Considered" because her husband has taken a senior role in President Barack Obama's re-election campaign.
NPR will no longer distribute the affiliate-produced program "World of Opera" to about 60 stations across the country because the show host helped organize an ongoing Washington protest, a network official said Friday evening.
So what's the problem?
In the first example, the NPR employee isn't working for the Obama campaign, however to stave off any impartiality questions, she's doing the ethical thing.
In the second example, they are disassociating themselves from a production (and a non-news or -opinion one at that) to again avoid any questions of impartiality. This is prudent.
I'd wish we'd see this level of impartiality and self-monitoring behaviour from the revolving door between Fox News and the GOP/Tea Party.
I don't get this. I love NPR, but many of my conservative friends think that it is left biased. I am not naive enough to believe that media is always straight down the middle, but I don't find NPR being that partial. Heck, they are funded by the Cato Institute, which is a pro-capitalist, libertarian institution.
There news features seem pretty open to all interpretations, and how can their artistic programming (jazz programming, Thistle and Shamrock, etc.) even be considered political at all? Any thoughts?
To answer your question: The only conservatives who think NPR is biased are the ones who are part of the Fox News cult and think anything other than Fox and Talk Radio are part of a communist anti-american agenda.
I'm liberal, and I listen to NPR because I'm actually informed instead of being spoonfed biased information. I'm pretty sure most of the journalists are liberal--as are most media figures. But I see nowhere near the bias that I see on cable news. I have no qualms about supporting NPR with my donations. I really think America would be worse off without NPR.
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Gee, I can't imagine why......
