Why is npr considered liberal

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Here, he said, the pigs would come to me and I could not pose a danger to anyone else. It was a nice spot indeed but did not make for much of a story, so I wandered off into the woods, hopefully protected by my Day-Glo hunting vest.

I eventually joined up with a family from Georgia. The group included the grandfather, Paps, and the father, CJ, but it was young Isaac, all of 8 years old, who took on the task of tutoring me in the ways of the hunt.

He did a fine job, but we encountered few pigs and killed none in our morning walkabout. In the afternoon, with the Georgians heading home, I linked up with a group of friends from Houston who belied the demographic stereotyping of the hunt; collectively we were the equivalent of a bad bar joke: a Hispanic ex-soldier, a young black family man, a Serbian immigrant and a Jew from DC.

None of my new hunting partners fit the lazy caricature of the angry NRA member. Rather, they saw guns as both a shared sport and as a necessary means to protect their families during uncertain times. In truth, the only one who was even modestly angry was me, and that only had to do with my terrible ineptness as a hunter. In the end, though, I did bag a pig, or at least my new friends were willing to award me a kill, so that we could all glory together in the fraternity of the hunt.

I also spent time in depressed areas of Kentucky and Ohio with workers who felt that their concerns had long fallen on deaf ears and were looking for every opportunity to protest a government and political and media establishment that had left them behind.

I drank late into the night at the Royal Oaks Bar in Youngstown and met workers who had been out of the mills for almost two decades and had suffered the interlocking plagues of unemployment, opioid addiction and declining health. They mourned the passing of the old days, when factory jobs were plentiful, lucrative and honored and lamented the destruction and decay of their communities, their livelihoods and their families.

To a man and sometimes a woman , they looked at media and saw stories that did not reflect the world that they knew or the fears that they had. Over the course of this past year, I have tried to consume media as they do and understand it as a partisan player.

It is not so hard to do. But the really interesting difference emerges when they ask which sources people trust:. You'll notice that for the consistent conservatives, trust is basically a function of ideology and partisanship. The only sources that over 50 percent of them trust are Fox and a bunch of conservative radio hosts and yes, conservatives would argue that that's because all the mainstream sources have a liberal bias.

But the consistent liberals, on the other hand, don't just trust the most ideologically liberal sources the most. But chances are most are thinking of the two flagship shows, "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered," which have by far the network's biggest audiences.

These shows are among the most assiduously even-handed presentations anywhere in the American media, but there's a reason why they are so appealing to liberals.

They may not have aggressively ideological content, but they do reflect a liberal sensibility. They're careful, reasoned, polite, cosmopolitan, serious with the occasional touch of whimsy-in short, everything liberals either are or imagine themselves to be. And everyone at NPR seems so nice-how could you not trust them? So liberals do, and most of them listen.

Now, on to the methodological discussion. You may know that the number of people who call themselves "conservative" in polls usually outnumbers those who call themselves "liberal" by a substantial margin around 15 percentage points in the latest Gallup polls. Yet we're supposedly a nation, so what's going on?