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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would love it if NPR brought in some centrist or centrist-right talent to balance the programming.

I've been an NPR fan for 20+ years, but it has been way, way too leftist in recent years. I know this can just be me, right?  It has become the radio version of MSNBC.

I realize this will never happen, but I may eventually just tune out entirely. [/quote]

As a European listener, it doesn't seem leftist as much as non-questioning. The US is very much a right-of-center country, and your Democrats aren't progressive or leftist whatsoever! They replace actual social policy-making with "woke" concepts, which is useless lip service to social ideals. So for me, coming from interviews on certain TV and radio channels of various European countries, and expecting interviewers to ask the hard questions, I tune into NPR, and it's just a gentle stream of centrist, or left-of-center warbling. Warbling being the operative word. There is no fight. NPR could broaden its listener base if it could actually make their interviewees squirm a little more, and come at them from all sides of the political spectrum.
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This is OP - and I agree ^. Whenever I listen to the BBC it's so clear that those interviews are more - this isn't quite the right word - combative. The interviewers challenge the subjects a lot more than American interviewers do. It would be interesting to see if the BBC model could ever work here - I don't know. Seems like our hosts let sources speak, and listeners to make of it what they will, a lot more.

I firmly agree, too, that NPR is far from a "leftist" organization. Arguably the podcasts are more so, but the on-air shows? No way.[/quote]

I like NPR and WAMU and more balanced than most mainstream stations. 
And, I wonder how BBC style would work in US. 
Too often lately balanced means X minutes to Party Y’s representative spewing talking points politely challenged. [/quote]

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