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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree, sadly. We were nonstop NPR listeners in our house and cars until after Trump won. It just got so obviously biased. (And we are super liberal!) Painful. [/quote]

Same. I used to start my day with the Up First podcast. I replaced it with The Economist's morning podcast because I was tried of the predictable stories and wanted a fairer portrayal of the news that wasn't trapped in the DC bubble. I also stopped listening to the NPR Politics podcast because its coverage is borderline snarky in its leftist point of view. The only one with a reasonable take is Mara Liasson. And, like the PP, I'm quite liberal![/quote]

So I'm looking through the 3 topics on the recent Up First podcasts - sorry, I'm not seeing anything "unfair." https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510318/up-first
The Economist is going to give you a more global focus so I guess that's what you're looking for?[/quote]

You can't really get a sense of what the difference is from one podcast. It is what they cover over and over, and what they never cover. I just opened up The Economist to see what is on their front page. One of the first articles is about England's transgender care and takes aim at both the US progressive approach (as too lax and harmful to children and women's sports) and the US conservative approach (too harsh). You won't hear that story on NPR. It is not just about having a more global approach. It is about not covering certain stories and not fairly examining both points of view. A second example is whenever they talk about Trump and NATO, someone has to make the joke under the guise of fact-checking that Trump clearly doesn't understand NATO because he thinks we're supposed to be spending on other countries' defense. We all get that Trump comes off as an idiot, and that NATO doesn't literally require us to actually pay other countries' armies but they're so busy mocking Trump that they can never get around to discussing the underlying criticism of NATO members that other countries haven't -- until Putin invaded Ukraine -- been spending what NATO requires for their own defense. To be clear, I do still listen to NPR sometimes but I don't listen to it first because I want to get a fair picture of the news, and that is best obtained elsewhere.[/quote]

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