[Superman]

I might agree that NPR is not conservative enough for your tastes. But then, the spending of public money is a group decision. In my humble view, Fox News is more than slanted. It is inconscionable pandering to commercial interest and it should be regarded as treacherous in the way it stirs up peoples' sense of indignation by reporting that portion of the facts that is expected to make viewers the most angry. It drives a wedge into my country's political discussions and deliberately misleads its viewers through misinformation and sensationalized reporting of part-truths.

As I say, NPR may be too conservative for your tastes. And it may also, at the same time, be right in the "center" between left and right. Your tastes, my friend, would conclude that 95% of the publications in the Western Hemisphere are wildly liberal. And of course, factually, if 95% of publications are liberal to you, then you are on the right. And "balanced" to you is not, factually, "balanced" in the sense of also seeming "balanced" to someone whose views are more conservative than 50% of people and more liberal than 50% of people.

I would be comfortable if NPR were SUBSTANTIALLY more liberal than it is. You were prefer it be substantially more conservative. It seems then, that it may be appropriately balanced.

Really, it all depends on what you have been told lately. The opinions of people who get their political news from typical sources......is quite different from the opinions of people who are actually involved in the public policy-making process. There is an alarming gap between the way people think stuff happens......and the way stuff actually happens. The "center" is not where you think it is.