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I've been a somewhat regular NPR listener for years
It of course carries from one program or station to another but my general impression is that, no surprise, nearly everyone involved in NPR is pretty solidly liberal.
But they bend over backwards so far trying to be impartial that it almost becomes a parody sometimes.
I remember one time, I'm pretty sure it was around the time of the unite the right thing, I was listening to some segment where they had some neonazi piece of shit on, I think it may have been Richard Spencer
And while it was technically a really good and informative interview, it burned me up that they just weren't tearing into this piece of crap.
And to make matters worse, Nazi boy was really confident and well-spoken, and whoever they brought in to argue the other side, some lady from a university or something, simply wasn't. If I weren't listening to the actual words coming out of their mouths I would've gotten the impression that he was someone who really had his shit together, and she was some clueless dip shit they bribed into the studio by offering her free kombucha or something.
It was like they went out of their way to make it seem like maybe this guy had a point worth listening too and didn't deserve to just be taken out back of the studio and shot.
Because conservatives don't care about fair reporting. They want their reporting.
There's a saying: facts have a liberal bias.
If you really want to get into the history, there is a Behind the Bastards episode where they talking about how during the Nixon scandal, conservatives saw that once the public was made aware of the link between Nixon and the thieves, the country turned on them.
They noticed that the facts were assumed to be true. That's why they started attacking power journalists like Walter Cronkite because their names were associated with facts.
After Nixon, conservatives attacked the Fairness Doctrine rule. And Fox News was born.
Truth has a liberal bias too.
I believe the original quote was "Reality has a liberal bias." It's attributed to Stephen Colbert, but I believe he was quoting someone else, because I remember using the quote in a term paper in high school back in the 90s.