NPR: liberal bias or just realistic, thorough and informed

[dun]

Not that these are mutually exclusive, but what do you think?

[Julie Fern]

npr not pander to right-wing wack jobs like most of msm.

[Evolve]

Realistic, thorough, and informed...

I listen to/watch/read a lot of news outlets and, in my opinion, NPR is among the most unbiased of news sources.

[| J |]

NPR is the bomb.  That's all I have to say.

[guyminuslife]

They're certainly all of the latter, although I would be greatly surprised to discover that anyone in charge of the material covered there were conservative. After all, it's not just how you approach an issue, it's also the choice of issues you cover, and NPR's net seems a bit broader than other news channels. If that's liberal bias, then...(*sigh*)

I believe I read a study that the station actually gives more air time to "conservative" interviewees than "liberal" ones. I wouldn't say that this translates into absolute lack of liberal bias, but if true I suppose this indicates that the station attempts to incorporate a variety of perspectives.

[philibusters]

Both- I don't think it has a liberal bias, if that means democratic, but when it approaches stories, it does it from an intellectual and analytical point of view, whereas conseratives want to approach a story more from a defined cultural point of view- they want to see a new development in light of how it interacts with cherished institutions in our culture, and NPR doesn't do that from the little I listen to, but approaches it from a more intellectual perspective.

[Happy_Weasel]

One question I have to ask is this- Maybe conservatives @#!* up more than liberals and are blaming the liberals.   

[Freak]

One question I have to ask is this- Maybe conservatives @#!* up more than liberals and are blaming the liberals.   

Considering that's not a question. 

[! B L U E WAR R I O R..!]

 

[wannaB1L]

NPR is very liberal. Although I must confess that they do have quality programming.