News...WTF do we (I) want?

[chucky2]

NPR is without a doubt, left leaning. That being said, I still like listening to it, even sometimes - but not always - just for comedic value. Is Mee-shell Norris still on? Plus, the forced different music for different music's sake is so....liberal...

 

[Thump553]

I listen to NPR on the way to work and it is great source of information and they provide great in-depth reporting.

But they are also very biased. You don't notice because they are biased in your direction.
Just as when you watch FOX and see a report and start fuming because the bias you see while I see their reporting (not the commentary) as very straight up and honest.

It is VERY hard to notice bias when it matches your ideas because to you it isn't bias, it is the truth.

Craig can watch MSNBC and go "these people are telling the truth" while I watch it and go "these people are nuts"

Bias is all about perspective. And you only notice it when it is going against yours.

Perhaps the problem with your viewpoint is that what is actually reality you view as "leftist." Things like evolution, for example-it astonishes me that people in my grandparents' days actually believed in creationism. For a sizeable amount of the GOP (including ALL their current Presidential candidates except Huntsman and perhaps Romney (at least today's belief for Romney)) to believe in creationism in the 21st century just absolutely buggers my imagination. And then they whine because others don't give their crackpot beliefs a equal time and credibility.

As for the music used being proof of NPR's leftist tendencies, I'd like a concrete example illustrating that alleged bias. For example, using Darth Vader's theme as the lead-in to an interview with Cheney-never heard NPR do that. Mostly their music is like 10,000 variations of their theme song. For very sad occassions (like when 9/11 occured and its immediate aftermath) they use very somber, funeral like dirges.

 

[mcurphy]

Perhaps the problem with your viewpoint is that what is actually reality you view as "leftist." Things like evolution, for example-it astonishes me that people in my grandparents' days actually believed in creationism. For a sizeable amount of the GOP (including ALL their current Presidential candidates except Huntsman and perhaps Romney (at least today's belief for Romney)) to believe in creationism in the 21st century just absolutely buggers my imagination. And then they whine because others don't give their crackpot beliefs a equal time and credibility.

As for the music used being proof of NPR's leftist tendencies, I'd like a concrete example illustrating that alleged bias. For example, using Darth Vader's theme as the lead-in to an interview with Cheney-never heard NPR do that. Mostly their music is like 10,000 variations of their theme song. For very sad occassions (like when 9/11 occured and its immediate aftermath) they use very somber, funeral like dirges.

Edit: I see now this thread is completely derailed. I'll request for it to be locked.

 

[nick1985]

I need balance because I dont engage with you? please. I find my views to be pretty level headed. Like I dont think we should have public unions but we should have powerful private ones.

You are the ass opposite of level headed.