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I got interested in this a few months ago, and kept track of the news articles on NPR in the morning whilst having coffee and attempting to wake up. I kept a kind of log about the general topic of each several minute segment for a couple of weeks.
It isn't so much that it's a creature of the Left, but it's remarkable how few things they actually talk about, other than the occasional huge event like a solar flare destroying China or the discovery of aliens.
Basically, practically every (not all, but darned near) story finds a group that feels put upon...
Raped women in college.
Black people being shot by non-black people and/or police.
Women who don't get ahead in business for some reason or the other.
Raped women in the military.
Illegal aliens who don't get to go to college.
Women who didn't get ahead in the military after they were raped
...you get the idea.
My point is that it's not all the thoughts of the Left, but a handful of group complaints that are typically associated to the Left that are their main focus.
It's probably just best to get an internet radio and listen to the BBC. They're as bolshie as you can get, but do a much better job with less of the social justice warrior angle.
I got interested in this a few months ago, and kept track of the news articles on NPR in the morning whilst having coffee and attempting to wake up. I kept a kind of log about the general topic of each several minute segment for a couple of weeks.
It isn't so much that it's a creature of the Left, but it's remarkable how few things they actually talk about, other than the occasional huge event like a solar flare destroying China or the discovery of aliens.
Basically, practically every (not all, but darned near) story finds a group that feels put upon...
Raped women in college.
Black people being shot by non-black people and/or police.
Women who don't get ahead in business for some reason or the other.
Raped women in the military.
Illegal aliens who don't get to go to college.
Women who didn't get ahead in the military after they were raped
...you get the idea.
My point is that it's not all the thoughts of the Left, but a handful of group complaints that are typically associated to the Left that are their main focus.
It's probably just best to get an internet radio and listen to the BBC. They're as bolshie as you can get, but do a much better job with less of the social justice warrior angle.
That is just taking a small segment of their programming an generalizing, you are completely ignoring their reporting on business, technology, science, politics. I guess you are going to see what you want to see.
That is just taking a small segment of their programming an generalizing, you are completely ignoring their reporting on business, technology, science, politics. I guess you are going to see what you want to see.
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That's what I heard every morning, it's pretty remarkable and quite obvious in terms of the programming.
What do they play at 10:00PM, I have no idea.
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I got interested in this a few months ago, and kept track of the news articles on NPR in the morning whilst having coffee and attempting to wake up. I kept a kind of log about the general topic of each several minute segment for a couple of weeks.
It isn't so much that it's a creature of the Left, but it's remarkable how few things they actually talk about, other than the occasional huge event like a solar flare destroying China or the discovery of aliens.
Basically, practically every (not all, but darned near) story finds a group that feels put upon...
Raped women in college.
Black people being shot by non-black people and/or police.
Women who don't get ahead in business for some reason or the other.
Raped women in the military.
Illegal aliens who don't get to go to college.
Women who didn't get ahead in the military after they were raped
...you get the idea.
My point is that it's not all the thoughts of the Left, but a handful of group complaints that are typically associated to the Left that are their main focus.
It's probably just best to get an internet radio and listen to the BBC. They're as bolshie as you can get, but do a much better job with less of the social justice warrior angle.
That's exactly what I have been saying. Their bias is in what they choose to report on and who they choose to have on their programs. The choose issues that appeal to liberals.
You don't have to tell lies to be biased. You don't have to tell lies to sway people toward your agenda. But NPR is not alone in this. All news outlets choose what to report on and that reflects their bias. The difference with NPR is that they get some of our tax dollars to do it.
Much better that corporate interests are the only ones handling political dialogue in the media. Right?????
NPR funding is a mixed bag.
To conclude that they are in any way independent of the businesses and individuals that contribute the bulk of their financing isn`t supported by the facts.
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?
For the same reasons I think that the sky is blue.
I actually like NPR, but it is OBVIOUSLY and COMPLETELY LEFT WING. I am sorry,but the fact that you do not appreciate that fact suggests that you are standing far left- in which case everything is relatively conservative to you (including NPR).
That's exactly what I have been saying. Their bias is in what they choose to report on and who they choose to have on their programs. The choose issues that appeal to liberals.
You don't have to tell lies to be biased. You don't have to tell lies to sway people toward your agenda. But NPR is not alone in this. All news outlets choose what to report on and that reflects their bias. The difference with NPR is that they get some of our tax dollars to do it.
I don't doubt that they are viewed as unbiased by some people because they (pretty much always) avoid outright editorial comments in their programming. If you view victim programming as interesting rather than a bit grating, it's never noticed as being a rather one sided exercise. Strike that...it's one sided programming about highly specialized but rather inconsequential issues.
I admit that their shows involving say, food, don't have a belief system spin to them, so how you view the NPR stations probably is heavily dependent on the time of day you do your listening.
With radio being on it's last legs, rather sad really, it's hard to get my knickers in a twist about all of this. There's a bundle of alternative things to listen to during coffee. My highest hope is to put together a jillion podcast lectures and throw them onto some kind of media server, it isn't like you learn much from modern 'news' shows anyhow.
Yep; the firing of Juan Williams showed just now bias and liberal they truly.
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