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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Regarding choosing NOT to listen..

NPR is commercial free which is why I like to listen to it.  Also, I like that it has a variety of types of show and I like the format of the morning and afternoon news-based shows.

However, I wish it was not so liberally biased.  This is a legitimate complaint.

NPR is supposed to be our national non profit radio station.  We don't have to just change the channel.

NPR should strive to be more balanced and unbiased.

The bias this election season is gag worthy.  I mean - it is over the top slanted towards the Democrats.  It is more anti-Trump than the Huffington Post.  It is completely irritating. [/quote]

What is your example of a balanced and unbiased news outlet?[/quote]

Ha, trick question! NPR is the best we got by most measures. Doesn't mean people need to be happy with that, but pretty much every news source in the US is more biased (either to Dems or GOP) than NPR.

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[b]Interviews/comments provided by Think Tank pundits[/b]
Every news outlet relies on expert commentators from think tanks to provide comments or to be interviewed.  Those think tanks include organizations such as American Enterprise, The Brookings Institute, and the Heritage Foundation.  A study in 2005 counted the number of commentators from conservative-leaning think tanks and the number of commentators from liberal-leaning think tanks.  The tally came to 249 conservatives and 141 liberals.  That means that 63.8% of the commentators from think tanks were conservatives.  So, NPR clearly is not trying to prevent conservative viewpoints from reaching its audience.

[b]Stories about the Obama Administration[/b]
Pew did a study and found that 52% of stories on the administration were neutral, compared to a 40% average for the media in general.  28% of stories about the administration were positive, compared to 37% for the media in general.  So, NPR clearly is not trying to be the voice of the current Democrat administration.

[b]Democrat and Republican Voices on the Fiscal Cliff Story[/b]
Another study looked at the audio clips played between Nov. 7 and Dec. 6 2012, concerning the Fiscal Cliff news story.  The count came to 94 Republican voices and 77 Democrat voices.  That means 54.9% of the audio clips of politicians providing their insight on the fiscal cliff came from Republicans.  So, NPR clearly is not trying to prevent conservative viewpoints from reaching its audience.

[b]The Audience Makeup[/b]
The Wall Street Journal reported on surveys by Gfk MRI that measured political leanings of NPR's weekly audience:
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NPR audience is the most balanced among audiences for any other major American news source.

The one place that analysts have detected a liberal bias is in the range of stories covered - specifically, NPR covers stories that tend to be of more interest to people that describe themselves as center-left to left than center-right to right. [b] For example, 31% of NPR's stories are about international news - whereas for US commercial radio, 3% of the news stories are about international news.

How NPR covers these stories does not demonstrate a bias, but the fact that they are covering them is deemed a bias, by some.[/b][/i][/quote]

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Wow! That's kind of crazy to me.  I guess it's no wonder that so many Americans are uninformed about international issues.[/quote]

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