No way. NPR is clearly aligned with the Democrats. You have to live in a bubble not to see it.
If it's so clear, find me a single example of NPR news being aligned with the Democrats in a way that is divergent from objective reality.
When I heard this dismissal and noticed that no one pushed back, it made me realize that the guests and host were all ideologically aligned. I still listen to NPR, but I now know that they are much more biased than I previously thought.
To downvoters: do you doubt that this happened or think it isn’t an apt example of NPR being aligned with Democratic Party positions?
The guest refers to the mismatch hypothesis, described by a Supreme Court Justice, as an "arcane argument" that is "really proven not to be the case". Then the other guest on the show laughed at the Justice (Scalia) and mischaracterized his statement. According to her, Scalia believes that "African-American people are stupid".
In reality, the mismatch hypothesis is about largely about preparation level. If you have equally intelligent students with large differences in academic preparation, the student that is less well prepared is likely to be harmed (in terms of GPA, class rank, likelihood to drop a well-paying major) when surrounded by other students that are more well-prepared.
If one of the guests or the host were even vaguely familiar with the concept, this mischaracterization would have been questioned.
I would also note that it is mischaracterizations like these (Scalia thinks "African-American people are stupid"!) that lead to further polarization. I would expect partisan framing like this on some news outlets, but it's pretty sad to hear it on NPR, on a show whose name implies openness to all perspectives.
1: https://www.npr.org/2015/12/11/459392702/week-in-politics-tr...
So again, an example of bias in actual news reporting?
If you think NPR News has a liberal bias, that may be because reality has a liberal bias.
Plenty of Republican politicians go on NPR for interviews.
NPR opinion and talk radio pieces are slightly left of center.
I think I've read this multiple times in this submission, and I think you're the one saying it over and over again. Do you not realize you're quoting Stephen Colbert from a news satire show?
Have you just been regurgitating this for years and no one had the decency to point it out to you?
Satire has a way of making uncomfortable truths easier to hear by cloaking them with humor.
“Only 4 percent of funding in fiscal year 2017 came from federal, state and local governments ...”
https://www.newsweek.com/where-does-npr-get-its-funding-call...
It is relevant that this is a small portion of their budget, but generally when someone thinks "this shouldn't be funded by taxpayer dollars" they don't stop caring just because the millions of dollars spent only cover a small portion of the entity's total budget. Typically these arguments are ideological/philosophical, not matters of degree.