NPR reports on teacher protests in California, interviews one person: a lone Tea Partier.

[Marr]

I've been more and more disappointed with NPR over the last few years, and today reminded me why. They reported on a crowd of teachers protesting "spending cuts" (never went into detail on what that meant exactly), and then when it came time to get an interview, the reporter chose the one Tea Party counter-protestor who'd shown up.

NPR has gotten really bad about this sort of thing.

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. But NPR is LIBERAL!!

:rofl:

[Zax2me]

2. The protesting side always gets the MSM press.

A referendum could pass by 90% vote, 100,000 people, but the press is going to cover the 8 people with signs outside the state capital.

[Marr]

3. The protestors were the crowd-- they interviewed the ONE GUY

who came out to essentially heckle the protestors. The reporter even noted that the Teabagger was alone. Reports like that one just scream 'management has issued guidelines' to me. It seems like they're directed to 'cover both sides', even when there's really only one side, and the other side is lone nut with tea bags stapled to his baseball cap.

Doesn't work the other way, though. If you're talking about pro-big business policy the "both sides" consists of suits who think big business' demands are fantastic, and suits who think big business' demands are awesome.

[senseandsensibility]

4. I gotcha

Don't listen anymore. They've been unbearable since the run-up to Iraq. But I can well imagine the coverage you describe.

[tularetom]

5. Who would miss NPR if it was no longer on?

The only reason I would even care if it went off the air is that in some remote areas it's about the only news source available.

Their programming sucks and has been slanted to the right for years.

[Enthusiast]

11. Not true.

Leftist protesters are routinely completely ignored by the MSM. Funny, I would have expected a member of the DU to be aware of this fact.

[Fumesucker]

15. You mean the way the M$M covered the huge protests at the first Bushie inauguration?

:eyes:

[a kennedy]

6. F*ck NPR......

:thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:

[Chorophyll]

7. Was this report part of "All Things Considered?"

I'm in NY and we have decent local programming, but I always find the national stuff, and ATC in particular, to be stealthily rightward-leaning.

[Gold Metal Flake]

8. I keep posting "liberal media bias' into these threads...

...to make it easy to search for such obvious examples of conservative media bias.

[bluerum]

9. NPR, fair, decisive, not liberal.

[Enthusiast]

12. NPR is no longer fair.

Not even close. I listened for years. NPR has become unbearable to anyone with left leaning political views. This isn't even a close call.

[Enthusiast]

10. I no longer support NPR.

And I no longer listen to NPR specifically because this kind of incident is repeated over and over. I hear the Republican/Teabagger position on every TV channel and every radio station, I won't willing support yet another vehicle for misinformation in NPR.

[Fly by night]

13. NPR = Non-stop Promotion of Republicans

For years, I was a very strong NPR supporter, even sponsoring dollar-for-dollar matches several times in their local fundraising drives. (Of course, I was younger and more employable then.)

But as soon as I heard one of their reporters refer to us as the "Democrat Party", I knew they had become Faux on the left end of the radio dial. They won't get another dime from me and they've lost me as a listener.

[Odin2005]

14. They takes corporate bribes, now.

Just on Monday morning they were telling people to help get 300 donations by 9AM so that MPR could get $5,000 from Best Buy. I would rather them NOT getting that corporate money.