Only people on the right think NPR is on the left. NPR is the most middle of the road you can get. Just because they report facts that contradict the administration doesn't make them left leaning.

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D-Machine 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not true at all? https://ground.news/interest/npr

	▲	jedberg 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Did you read the link you posted? Two of them rated it as "barely left" and one rated it "center". And all of them rated it "highly factual"

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BurningFrog 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I used to be an avid NPR listener, but after George Floyd it's astoundingly woke when I try listening. That's not very often anymore, to be fair.

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kashunstva 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I’m curious about how you would objectively define “woke”. I’d also be curious about how NPR scores on those measures relative to other comparable media.

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D-Machine 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Why do people still trot out this tired argument?

https://web.archive.org/web/20230404013504/https://freddiede...

EDIT: And if you didn't mean it in that way, and were serious, consider looking at e.g. Ground News' rating of NPR: https://ground.news/interest/npr. They (and others) clearly show NPR to have (slight) left bias. This means you are almost certainly going to see woke perspectives there from time to time, and more often than other less-biased or right-biased sources.

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BeetleB 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I know hard core leftists love to bash NPR/PBS, but as a non-leftist, non-centrist, non-right wing person, I definitely find NPR to have a left wing bias. Not as left wing as Democracy Now, etc - but definitely left leaning.

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delecti 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> as a non-leftist, non-centrist, non-right wing person

I'm curious what you think your politics are then.

	▲	BeetleB 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think it's important not to tie identity to any part of the spectrum (e.g. "I'm center left"). I have opinions on issues, and they can vary across the spectrum. On some issues (e.g. healthcare) I'm far to the left (well, in the US - would just be considered "normal" left in other countries). On things like immigration I'm either center or right (everyone seems to have their own idea of what "center" means). On gun control I'm both left and right - I'd like to outlaw them, but am opposed to some gun control initiatives. On several social issues I can be far to the left on some and far to the right on others. In an election, I voted both for a Green Party candidate and a Republican candidate (different offices, of course). What I see is people who identify on the spectrum may have strong opinions on some issues (e.g. left), and then they adopt the leftist viewpoint on other issues - in order to be consistent. In my experience, these people are also more likely to follow "leaders" than be opinionated.

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penskymaterial 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The NPR front page right now has a clip from a profanity-filled interview with a drag queen.

Famously fair and balanced, I know.

	▲	jedberg 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Ok, and they also have the President saying Iraq should bomb Los Angeles. What is your point?
	▲	estearum 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Huh? Here are all the headlines currently above the fold on the homepage. Don't see anything about a drag queen below the fold either. Maybe something autocorrected in your address bar when you tried to navigate to NPR? * What happened during Christa Pike's failed execution * Christa Pike conscious and able to speak after failed execution * As Trump focuses the FBI on immigration, counterintelligence is falling behind * Democrats' advantage is clear with less than a month to go in the midterm elections * What voters in 6 key states could tell us about the 2026 midterms * People are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms * Alaska's US Senate race collides with the pollock industry in a fight over fish * Poll: Residents are losing faith in Vermont as a good place to start life * In race for Tennessee governor, Blackburn refuses to debate Democrat Green * Disney, ABC battle Trump's FCC in court over free speech protections * New Hollywood era begins with an epic mega merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. * She died covering war for Fox News. Her parents blame the network — and a star reporter * Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey's new Pentagon roles raise ethics worries * Jim Bakker, who built 'PTL Club' televangelism empire, has died at 86 * Cornell names former acting U.S. attorney general to review rape case * Cornell students protest the university's handling of 2024 rape allegations * Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize in physics for work on high-energy neutrinos from space