I listen to PBS (public radio) most of the time because it is the only intelligent radio?

Question

on the air. That said, do you think that PBS radio is slanted toward the Democrat, leftist, socialist point of view? Again, let me say that I listen just about every day.

Answer 1

Public radio is demonstrably biased in its coverage of many things, but I have to say that they are probably the most subtle of anyone about it. Listen carefully to the way that they ask questions to those that are interviewed. With a Democrat, liberal, or other person whose viewpoint they are sympathetic to, they ask open ended questions like "Tell us about" or "why". With those they don't agree with, they tend to ask closed-ended questions like "People say this about you, are they right" or "Isn't it true that?" Also, they seem to be very free with ascribing negative motives to people or causes without evident justification.

There are also numerous cases of political bias at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and its member stations.

Answer 2

NPR is basically listener sponsored. It gets some support from the government and some from corporate foundations. It is beholden to nobody, unlike commercial radio which is becoming more and more dominated by corporate ownership. If you listen to it everyday you already know that it presents both sides of the view. I would say that PBS or NPR is not slanted.

Answer 3

I listen to NPR also and BBC. Those are the only programs that DON'T have a right wing slant, imo. Not having a right wing slant doesn't make a program a leftist program.

When the charge from the right first came up, I paid particular attention to how the reports were phrased, but to be honest, I cannot detect a left wing slant.

Answer 4

The bias at PBS is probably on par with CNN, although not as far to the left or as open about their bias as Air America. They pretty much follow the line of the New York Times.

I would encourage you to try Boortz, or Rush. If you want a flavor for Boortz, check out his website at http://boortz.com (there's no www for some reason) and go to today's "nuze" section.

Enjoy!

Answer 5

do you mean NPR? I don't know of PBS radio. NPR is listener sponsored, so they report news that they think the listeners would want to hear. Most of theri listeners are liberals, so their human interest stories tend to be slanted. HOWEVER, their reporting of the news is very much non-biased.

Answer 6

PBS is as biased as they are boring. They are so biased they had to appoint a conservative to head it up recently because of the constant complaints of their biased news reporting.

The issue is that they are a tax-payer funded radio station and have an obligation to be objective.

If you want liberal radio listen to Air America, if you want conservative listen to Rush...they are private, hence they can be as biased as they want.

Answer 7

I think they tend to promote both sides of an issue, but you can sense that most on-air personalities have a leftist slant. They recieve federal funding and are not supposed to show bias.

http://www.npr.org/about/funding.html

Answer 8

Absitively (combine ABSolutely and posITIVELY). I listen to it too. From the news (choice of stories and slant of content) to entertainment there is a definite list to port.

Answer 9

Yes of course it is, and it isn't "slanted" its outright lying! There IS a difference!

Answer 10

I think they just tell it as it is. Personally, I like Air America. They're so extremely liberal that it pisses my liberal butt off. But, it's funny. And I'd rather be pissed of by a liberal than by a conservative.