On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 07:46:47 -0600, "Dan Luke"
wrote:

Right wing charges of partisanship are hard to support in light of the
fact that NPR frequently uses commentary from sources to the right of
center, e.g. The Wall Street Journal, U. S. News and World Report, The
American Enterprise Institute and The Cato Institute, just to name a
few.

In the hourly news summaries, the form of an NPR story during the
Clinton years seemed to start with some exposition, usually something
the Republican Congress was starting up, followed by some in-depth
analysis why whatever it was was desperately wrong. I've spot-checked
them since 2000; they appear to not have changed their approach to
reporting.

The in-depth reporting, if it's human interest or pure exposition, is
usually excellent. In-depth political reporting suffers from the same
stuff that has plagued some newspapers: The slant is in the way the
piece is organized and edited, not in the material the reporter
gathered. The right gets its say, but is made to look the fool anyway.

Like all news media outlets, they too have unquestioned premises. One
of them is that Democrats are Better.

Rob