Does NPR have a liberal bias

[Gerald Creasy]

Paul,

I believe that Tim actually started with the name calling. Perhaps you should have quoted him as well.

Aw, Pauls just carrying a grudge cause I call his WOF insanity the witchcraft it is.

[scooter]

Tim, You are an educated Idiot.

Response: Did I write that? Lord knows I sure thought it.

Of course we are just following the script ie:

Liberal comes on conservative board, spews chunks left handed dribble as "truth", attacks boards owner, then will blame others which rally behind actual truth as the bad guys.

Been there. Don't want the T-Shirt. Pink is not my color.

[MacUser]

Absolutely NPR has an extreme liberal bias. It wouldn't have any funding any other way. No brainer.

Tim, we love you.. and I really enjoy you when you are not always attempting to attack leaders whenever you can. Discredit the message via the source mantra.. ( FoxNews, Jude2 [leader pg], or [ Insert Non Left Group Here ] ) appears to be the main goal lately.. either subconsciously or consciously.

Evaluate Yourself First, OK? We love you and will gladly debate.. but ACCEPT the answer when you get it or it.

Also on a sidenote.. remember we don't throw our Pastors away for fighting back anymore. These guys are HUMAN also.. yet striving to do better. I get so upset when Pastors feel unable to fight back when they are clearly being ATTACKED from all angles. Then when they attempt to defend THAT is used against them next. How did we build this doomed outline? These cards are old and I don't appreciate it. It has destroyed to many good men from ministry.

You are loved Tim. I hope you feel better today.
God Bless You.

[dolfan]

[Raises hand]

NPR is liberal. Fox is conservative. What's the controversy? I know what I'm getting when I listen to either one of them. All Things Considered is produced by people who favor liberal agendas, but it is well done and it makes for good radio. Fox News Channel is produced by people who favor Republican agendas, but it is not always well done and, IMO makes for lousy TV most of the time. I don't listen to ATC because I really don't want to hear the liberal clap-trap even if it is well done, and I don't watch Fox News because even if they say something I halfway agree with, it is sold to me as a sensation of some degree or with sexy/saucy newsbabes delivering the goods. I'm just not in the market for either one of them. And CNN? Please. When it comes to breaking news, I watch CNN because they have better assets on the ground in more places. Otherwise, if it isn't breaking news on something very, very important or on the scale of the Hudson River plane crash, I'm not watching TV for it or listening to the radio for it at all.

I'm an equal opportunity mad white guy --- as a libertarian-minded fella, I really don't like either one of them all that much. When I listen to Garrison Keillor, I don't laugh at his political jokes very often, and when I watch Fox News, Steve Doocy is funniest when he's not talking about politics. When I want NEWS, though, I read Drudge Report links.

If I want to laugh about politics, I listen to Rush Limbaugh. He's the only funny voice out there, IMO, when it comes to politics --- and you don't have to agree with what he says to find him funny. Personally, I don't think anyone who fails to laugh at the Al Sharpton on a megaphone ads has a sense of humor. I'd bet Al Sharpton would chuckle privately but never admit it.

[bibleguy]

Absolutely NPR has an extreme liberal bias. It wouldn't have any funding any other way. No brainer.

I have to agree. During the election there was a NPR program with 3 women dishing about how they were appalled that the Republicans and Sarah Palin had taken power from the feminist movement via "red state feminism": strong, sometimes attractive, conservative, family women. Then they introduced another woman to "offer another perspective." She came on, and agreed with everything the first 3 had said!

News people need to be able to report the facts without the slant, whether conservative or liberal. They will certainly have an opinion, but they need to save that slant for the editorials.

Tim Russert seemed to be able to do that. I heard nothing but accolades from both sides about his ability to ask the tough questions regardless of the positions of the interviewee. But too many news people go into the industry with the desire to change the world. That's not what the news industry is for.

Whether FOX manages to get it done or not, the slogan conveys the right idea: They should report & let us decide.

I don't, however, feel that they should not be allowed bias. They should just let us know, and not pretend to be un-biased when a bias exists. Report the facts when reporting the news. Editorialize when appropriate, and give your personal opinion. I will act as Supreme Sovereign of the Remote, and change the channel if I wish - or at the next commercial break.

[MacUser]

They should just let us know, and not pretend to be un-biased when a bias exists.

Why not just let the person be him or herself? If they are not effective.. then they will not be watched and the market will dictate success or failure.

[one love]

Hannity is a show of course he will give his bias. It is the news that is a issue, if you watch CNN reports of just "news" they are liberally biased. Fox seems to be pretty balanced in their news coverage, In the shows like Oriely, Hannity etc. yes there will be a bias.

[rough_rider]

Deleted, I just read the other thread

[Pastor Gary]

You people are all obviously ignorant liars.

(In much the same way that people from some regions wrongly equate southern accents with ignorance, the poorly-named self-anointed "intelligentsia" look down their noses upon the church-going, Branson-vacationing, Fox-watching, conservative-voting, Walmart-shopping, Cracker-Barrel-eating folks who dominate the military -- patriotism is sooo nationalistic -- work in the factories and built this country.)

[Pastor Gary]

NPR’s own official ombudsman, Jeffrey Dvorkin, admitted a liberal bias in NPR’s talk programming.

Veteran Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz admitted recently what many conservatives have long argued:taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) leans heavily to the left politically.

"American adults believe that the three major broadcast networks deliver news with a bias in favor of liberals. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 25% believe that ABC, CBS, and NBC deliver the news without any bias.

Similar results are found for CNN and National Public Radio (NPR). By a margin of 33% to 16%, Americans say that CNN has a liberal bias. The nation’s adults say the same about NPR by a 27% to 14% margin."

It may be nothing more than perception, but it is certainly an overwhelming, and self-admitted perception. (That guy from NPR is probably an ignorant liar...)

[Tim Elston]

It may be nothing more than perception, but it is certainly an overwhelming, and self-admitted perception. (That guy from NPR is probably an ignorant liar...)

I'm glad you got all that off your chest, Gary, but you said there was never a conservative word on NPR, and that's not true. I never said NPR doesn't have a liberal bias. I said that it's not true that conservative viewpoints are never heard there. You brought this over to a poll thread to get your wounded soul pacified by the Fox News choir, but in the other thread you said that Fox News is biased and that's why they bowdlerized contextual and factual information from that Associated Press report. I agree.

[Gerald Creasy]

It may be nothing more than perception, but it is certainly an overwhelming, and self-admitted perception. (That guy from NPR is probably an ignorant liar...)

I'm glad you got all that off your chest, Gary, but you said there was never a conservative word on NPR, and that's not true. I never said NPR doesn't have a liberal bias. I said that it's not true that conservative viewpoints are never heard there. You brought this over to a poll thread to get your wounded soul pacified by the Fox News choir, but in the other thread you said that Fox News is biased and that's why they bowdlerized contextual and factual information from that Associated Press report. I agree.

But then you call your leftist idiocy "centrist" so what YOU would call Conservative and what a Conservative would call conservative are two different things.

[Pastor Gary]

It may be nothing more than perception, but it is certainly an overwhelming, and self-admitted perception. (That guy from NPR is probably an ignorant liar...)

I'm glad you got all that off your chest, Gary, but you said there was never a conservative word on NPR, and that's not true. I never said NPR doesn't have a liberal bias. I said that it's not true that conservative viewpoints are never heard there. You brought this over to a poll thread to get your wounded soul pacified by the Fox News choir, but in the other thread you said that Fox News is biased and that's why they bowdlerized contextual and factual information from that Associated Press report. I agree.

I would appreciate it if you would honor my request that you take it elsewhere. Please stop addressing me in your insulting posts. Thanks.

[Full Quiver]

I don't listen to NPR because the times in which I did I found it to be BORING and monotone. Quiet talking should cause alarms to sound. It's like they are hiding something or being secretive or quiet possibly just not proud of what they are saying.

I would naturally assume that they are liberally slanted due to the fact that they are federally funded. Conservatives aren't much for "govt. radio" and would rather cut all funding to such programs. NPR is not needed! There are radio stations all over this country and it is free to listen to.

[Tim Elston]

I don't listen to NPR because the times in which I did I found it to be BORING and monotone. Quiet talking should cause alarms to sound. It's like they are hiding something or being secretive or quiet possibly just not proud of what they are saying.

I would naturally assume that they are liberally slanted due to the fact that they are federally funded. Conservatives aren't much for "govt. radio" and would rather cut all funding to such programs. NPR is not needed! There are radio stations all over this country and it is free to listen to.

I don't like all the loud, innane commercials on commercial radio. Neither do I like the hysteria of liberal and conservative talk radio. The NPR format is intelligent, sane, and informative. Sometimes I do get angry at particular liberal takes on issues, but I get angry at conservative takes on issues, too, so liberal-shliberal, conservative-schmertavite. But format-wise, it's my favorite.

I'm just expressing an opinion here. It's not meant to diss yours. Quite frankly, Full Quiver, I am often impressed with you line of thinking. Sometimes not, but sometimes so.