Right, Right, And Center
A survey by the left-leaning media watchdog, FAIR, says NPR mostly uses sources who are Republicans:
"Republicans not only had a substantial partisan edge," according to a report accompanying the survey, "individual Republicans were NPR's most popular sources overall, taking the top seven spots in frequency of appearance." In addition, representatives of right-of-center think tanks outnumbered their leftist counterparts by more than four to one, FAIR reported.
Yes, even the liberal-est of the liberal media leans conservative!
(via Romenesko)
Posted by aalkon at May 28, 2004 7:26 AM
Comments
Coulter, bless her pointed little head, claimed on C-Span that a freakishly high percentage of NPR's listeners are conservative. I believe it, though I asked her office for the cite and they never got back to me. (She also noted that the reason the C-span networks switched from a single caller to one each for Dems and Reps was that the proportion of Dem callers was far too low otherwise. Lamb copped to this.)
But there's a much better reason to avoid NPR and network news than intricate politics: Those people are IRREDEEMABLY pompous. Seriously, don't you just want to take a piss into the pocket of Peter Jennings' blazer? Ditto Cokie and Lakshmi Sing?
Posted by: Crid at May 28, 2004 3:09 PM
Whoops, that should read single caller PHONE LINE...
Posted by: Crid at May 28, 2004 3:10 PM
"bless her pointed little head"
First, Todd Rundgren... now, Jefferson Airplane!?!
Posted by: Lena at May 28, 2004 6:59 PM
By the way, I can't stand Cokie Cokehead. She's the Liz Smith of the Beltway.
Posted by: Lena at May 28, 2004 7:00 PM
Crid writes: "Those people are IRREDEEMABLY pompous."
And that satisfies my need for a "One-a-Day Plus Irony."
Posted by: Patrick at May 28, 2004 8:18 PM
Meee-yow!
Posted by: Crid at May 28, 2004 8:25 PM
Thought you'd get a kick out of that, Crid.
Posted by: Patrick at May 28, 2004 8:58 PM
I agree with you on Cokie, Lena, she's always been insufferable, even when she was starting out on NPR. But if both your parents were life-long members of Congress, maybe you're just wired that way.
Posted by: Richard Bennett at May 31, 2004 4:46 AM