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By Tim Graham | March 27, 2011 | 21:00

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Even when they tackle the question of NPR's liberal bias, NPR can't help themselves. The NPR show On The Media on Saturday aired a segment on the question of bias lasting 18 minutes. NPR offered the largest chunk of time (eight minutes) to Tom Rosenstiel of the Pew Research Center, who asserted that data on story selection and tone do not demonstrate a liberal bias at NPR. 

Another almost three minutes were granted to Steve Rendall of the radical-left group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. He wouldn't say NPR was conservative, but complained "we've had four decades of formal campaigning by the right, by groups like Accuracy in Media, the Media Research Center, the Heritage Foundation to portray our media, corporate and public broadcasting, as being to the left of center. It's paid off. And I think the fact that we're having this discussion here [in which Rendall was allowed to speak, and MRC and AIM and Heritage were not], the fact that there's a debate in Congress shows how much it's paid off." 

By contrast, NPR host Brooke Gladstone devoted 90 seconds to the findings of professors Tim Groseclose and Jeff Milyo, who found, she said, that NPR was "much less liberal than the New York Times." Conservatives were represented not by experts, but by two average NPR listeners, who were granted five minutes. That's about 35 percent of the time.

The two conservatives argued for a liberal-bias thesis, but were limited to current anecdotes. There were no questions about Schiller & Schiller or the Juan Williams firing or anything about the big picture of NPR. Both their examples were also noted by NewsBusters, which Gladstone acknowleged on one: "The question that Kevin Putt objected to was also cited by the conservative media criticism site NewsBusters, which called it a liberal question that demonstrated liberal skepticism."

That dealt with Michele Norris asking the CEO of Intel if the country could "afford" a corporate tax holiday. The other example was the one-sided pro-amnesty report from Utah by Mara Liasson.

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They can't help it, they are

Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 11:45pm.

They can't help it, they are inbred.

Non, je ne regrette rien. "You aren't angry because I might be a racist, you're angry because you know I'm right".
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I'll say it again.

Submitted by Ashrak on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 12:05am.

NPR's firearms and firearms rights coverage is the best and clearest example of outright leftist bias that exists. Even their framing of the issue is biased. "Gun Control" is taking a side and it is opposite the Constitution in and of itself.

Shall. Not. Be. Infringed.

That an individual right exists requires that some policy positions be removed from the table of debate.
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Left, right, center - it

Submitted by jdhawk on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 12:31am.

Left, right, center - it doesn't matter. The point is that we simple can not afford a tax payer funded media of any kind.

We don't need them anymore, there is radio, TV, cable, Internet, blogs, texting, twitting, facebooking, etc.etc.

If the NPRs of this world are really wanted and needed, they will find funding from private sources.

Heck, everytime I've dialed them up on the radio or on the TV they are always begging someone/anyone about donating to them.

When they aren't doing that, they are announcing such and such company is one of their "proud" sponsors.

If they had real advertisements, they would have more time for propaganda . . . er . . . news . . . .

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Clear proof

Submitted by johnsonl on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 7:08am.

that liberals sniff their own pharts. They are so completely reetarded that they not only reject any opinion but theirs, they actually gather in groups to profess that they are not leftists! Incredible! One of my coworkers, a (white) man my age, (50) said, "I'd rather see this country go down in FLAMES than NOT have a black president." Nobody is against a black president, idiots. But, nobody wants to mindlessly prop one up, either.

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NPR, Why Deny Your Leftism?

Submitted by Comrade Jim on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 9:44am.

Learn to be proud of your product - truth in labeling and all that. After all you aren't selling used cars. Yes, you are selling used Marxism. But acknowledge it and sell it proudly the way you do off camera..

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They can't

Submitted by Ole_Sarge on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 10:14am.

It would chase away many of their "local" supporters. You know the rubes that still believe that NPR is unbiased and provides in depth coverage, along with programming for kids and schools like "Reading Rainbow" and other "Children's Television Workshop" crap.

I still get mailings, calls and emails from WETA. It's almost comical, I write and tell them why I will not support them again, and they spend even more money trying to encourage me to "support community based" crap.

Nope, I've seen your true colors. Even with the two "bows" to a "show" (and that's all it is) of American pride, I cannot and will not support NPR or PBS.

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npr

Submitted by tlaw on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 5:38pm.

I am again mytified by these posts. Who really cares if npr is left fair or right? The fact is that the government shold not subsidize news. Damn period.

tlaw
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The site is about leftwing bias ...

Submitted by NL207 on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 5:42pm.

in the media.

 

NPR is so left biased its is unable to discern that it is left-biased.  The tax dollars they receive to implement their bias merely adds injury to insult. 

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