NPR's own official ombudsman, Jeffrey Dvorkin, admitted a liberal bias in
NPR's talk programming. The daily program "Fresh Air with Terry Gross" -- a
60-minute talk show about the arts, literature and also politics -- airs on
378 public-radio stations across the fruited plain. Gross recently became a
hot topic on journalism Web sites for first having a friendly, giggly
interview with satirist Al Franken, promoting his screed against
conservatives on Sept. 3, and then on Oct. 8, unloading an accusatory,
hostile interview on Bill O'Reilly's show. She pressed the Fox host to
respond to the attacks of Franken and other critics. Dvorkin ruled:
"Unfortunately, the (O'Reilly) interview only served to confirm the belief,
held by some, in NPR's liberal media bias ... by coming across as a
pro-Franken partisan rather than a neutral and curious journalist, Gross
did almost nothing that might have allowed the interview to develop."
National Public Radio is properly understood, even by the media, as radio
by and for liberals, not the general public. As Washington Post media
reporter Howard Kurtz puts it, the media landscape stretches "from those
who cheer Fox to those who swear by NPR."
Kevin T. - VRWC
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