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WaPo, NYT, The Atlantic, NPR, and many others.
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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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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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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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> as a non-leftist, non-centrist, non-right wing person

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

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

Famously fair and balanced, I know.

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Ok, and they also have the President saying Iraq should bomb Los Angeles. What is your point?
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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

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NPR takes "both sides" reporting to an absurd extreme
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Have you read the WaPo and NYT lately?
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WaPo? definitely not. going through independence crisis.

NYT - i think so.

NPR - funding crisis.

The Atlantic - i don't read this - is this the one who's journalist was added in the top secret signal chat?

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It's not a clear divide between right and left, and NYT, the Atlantic, and NPR stans right wing voices constantly, have constantly used their editorialization to promote right wing ideals, and have gone out of their way to center right wing voices to give the appearance of being centrist to the right, which has had a direct impact in their perception as not really left wing by any of the left.

Now the center right is supporting concentration camps like "alligator alcatraz" so the overton window has shifted a lot in the last ten years.

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WaPo definitely is not with Bezos at the helm and preventing them from endorsing Harris
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To the left of outright fascist propaganda? I'll give you that.
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I think it is amusing that people try to peg each news outlet as "left" or "right" as if they are an 18-year-old who votes whilst standing on a seesaw.

First, political views are not one-dimensional and so the "left"/"right" and far-extreme-ultra game is just "are they on my side or are they considered bonkers by my brethren?" games.

I believe that it's far better to consider news outlets as a product of their sponsors vs. their intended audience. By and large, they are all corporations trying to maximize revenue by attracting and maintaining a large audience for their materials, thereby paying their sponsors and advertisers the revenue they need.

So, they will produce stories that engage the audience. Whether that is enraging us, stoking controversy, appealing to us with smooth words: doesn't matter. There's no such thing as bad engagement. The corollary is that they don't want to lose audience members so any slide into supporting unpopular causes or candidates or ideologies is nipped in the bud.

Folks also can't seem to accept that editorial opinions or ideologies can shift, especially for example, if a news outlet supports "whoever/whatever is currently in power this year" or as a contrarian, opposes them, and riles up the opposition parties.

Wikipedia's relentless blacklisting and deprecation of "unreliable sources" is a great public experiment in this regard. If you really want a nice left-leaning anodyne view of the world, go with Wikipedia and "blacklist" or stop paying attention to any source they don't like.

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Yes, all of them, minus the ones you can count on one hand that's missing a few fingers from a fireworks mishap.
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