WHY do TAX DOLLARS support NPR? I would prefer the money flow elsewhere, like my pocket. I do not listen to NPR, unless it is an accident. I object to the fact that I am forced to pay for it, regardless of my political leaning. Do Rush, Hannity, Buchaanan get public tax money for their businesses?? Are they included as a line item in the federal budget?

Cut it loose and see if it flies in the marketplace. Even the new Rush on this blog should be able to agree with that position.

The point is, though, that when people complain about NPR being lefty, it shows how skewed the playing field has become. Sure, if you’re comparing it to FOX or CNN, but the point is that most of what you hear on NPR is indistinguishable from what you’d see and hear on most mainstream media outlets (like the NYT). What’s missing is not “right” or “left” but any real voice of DISSENT — of even questioning the accepted, mainstream version of things.

Whatever else one thinks of NPR, it does often have interesting stories about interesting topics you won’t hear elsewhere, particularly in science and culture (much like the NYT). That’s the main reason I listen. As for “news,” it’s just same ol’, same ol’.

–Fred–

Several years I stopped listening to NPR regularly for the same reason I cannot watch Fox News — too much agenda packaged as objective news content.

I have a feeling, however, that I could find a lot of instances of bias at NPR going the other way, too. Still, a quick search does indicate complaints about NPR from the left have died down in the blogosphere, so maybe you are right.

Perhaps NPR has lurched rightward, but as far as I can tell, it’s still a favorite of lefties and the bete noir of righties (present company excepted, of course).
I’ll listen to All Things Considered or Morning Edition in the next few days and report back.

So, I ask you, where’s the liberal bias? Can you identify a single “liberal voice” (GK excepted) in this whole hour of wholesome radio? OK, I’ll make it easier: Can you identify even a slight note of dissent? Does anyone who thinks it might be a good thing to bring the troops home and not “cut and run” get to be heard?

If NPR is liberal, I’m friggin Rush Limbaugh.

–Fred–

Not unlike the government sponsored gambling parlors in the UK where the punters are mostly lower income types and the beneficiaries are operas, classical music organizations and art museums. A luscious irony, no?

(Of course the BBC would have you think there’s some equity in this. But they are known for seeing things, well, in their own particular way.)

BTW, did Air America ever repay the money that was embezzled from the Boys and Girls Clubs of New York to help get it off the ground? Funny how that never made it to the MSM, sick funny, that is.

They are good and funny books.. I just figured that I would hear the same material on his radio show that I alrady heard in the audio book.. so i never tuned in.

my SIRIUS radio offers NPR talk, Sirius Left (with Alex Bennet).. it has both Liberal and Conservative stations, CNN, Fox News, etc…. I see no need to listen to any terrestrial radio anymore, other than local WQQQ while I have my coffee.