It does seem to have moved the tiniest bit away from a heavy left/democrat/liberal bias and become a wee bit more objective. While still very liberal, it occasionally surprises me with articles that tell more than just the main stream democrat side of the story.

For example, just the other day they ran an article that explored Obama's claim of 46 million uninsured Americans. They mentioned several things, such as:

46 million was based on people that were uninsured at any point during a single year. Thus, if you were uninsured for a few weeks while switching jobs, you would be pat of this "uninsured Americans" even though it was a very brief issue for you. It mentioned how this number included over 5 million illegal aliens, and how 25% of the uninsured people were already eligible for Medicare and other programs but just hadn't bothered to sign up for it. (If you took all their data and did the math, you ended up with a number that was about 40% less than the claim of 46 million).

It never went so far as to say Obama was "lying" or being "deceptive", but it did at least put out some useful data so that a savvy reader could do the math.

I think this increase in objectivity is encouraging, as public radio really should make an event to present both sides of issues rather than continuously prevent one opinion as proven fact and ignore all other viewpoints.
Source(s):
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111651742


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