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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NPR is peddling one sided ideas, not news. Bad bad bad!!!![/quote]

No, it's not.  I listen all the time and they make more effort than most anyone to present multiple opinions.  [/quote]
Like how?[/quote]

They consistently have multiple points of view on their shows. I know that the listenership skews liberal but I consistently find that they do the best job of explaining multiple points of view. Also there is research that shows that NPR listeners tend to be some of the best-informed people, while Fox News viewers have the most factually incorrect beliefs. I so wish my Fox News loving parents would give NPR a try, because it really does do a good job covering the facts.[/quote]

Agreed.  I think people get stuck on the fact that many of the non-news shows skew liberal.  I also like listening to the BBC Newshour that comes on at 9 am on WAMU.  It's really interesting to hear the news from a completely different point of view.[/quote]

+1 NPR regularly has conservative guests and they are treated the same as liberal ones -- I recall Asa Hutchison being a frequent guest on morning edition (or the evening version, can't remember) several times during the 2016 election, and I came to appreciate his viewpoints.  They also had David Duke, Kevin McCarthy...  and they've had lots of reporting about Trump voters that doesn't treat them like bizarre fools.  [/quote]

I also like that they cover a wider variety of topics than most TV news.  I have a conservative media-hating relative who is always posting things on Facebook about some news story THE MEDIA IS NOT COVERING! Because, of course, the media hates regular America. 9 times out of 10 I can post a link to a piece from NPR.  Which she of course ignores because the media (other than Fox?) is the devil.  [/quote]

1A is spectacular in their coverage of both sides of any issue. I was sad that Diane Rehm retired (though it was time) but Joshua Johnson kicks ass. It's my favorite program![/quote]

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