• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    That’s bullshit, though.

    NPR is very factual with a left-center bias.

    They get dinged for supporting Israel and because member stations curate their own content. Texas public radio is very different from Houston public radio which is different from Minnesota public radio and LAist serving southern cali.

    Secondly, most conservatives left NPR in general because of their largely factual reporting. Further, at least MPR, they don’t shy away from reporting on republicans or admitting the rare good things they’ve done.

    Conservatives responded in one of a few ways:

    • becoming less conservative (my dad for example is now an independent.)
    • not listening to NPR and instead going to fox or OAN or Epoch….
    • listening to those others mentioned and then making angry, terroristic phone calls.

    It’s really not NPRs fault this happened- they told the truth as fairly and accurately as they could. And as to her accusation of favoring democrats for political interviews… do you really thing Trump or whoever is going to give an interview to somebody who says things like “but that’s not true.” To your face, when you just spouted some election-fraud lies? Or “do you have any proof?” When you double and triple down on the lie?

    Nope. Because that guy looked like an idiot. (I forget who the interview was. Maybe it was one of trumps lawyers or some random pubie.)

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      8 months ago

      Being very factual is what makes it liberal news. It’s so slanted, in fact I don’t think a single liberal would deny that this is exactly why they tune in! The savages are literally just listening to what they want to hear!

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        The universe has a well known liberal bias - it shouldn’t be allowed to influence our fair and balanced media coverage.