Media Bias Wars

So-called liberal NPR mostly uses republican and administration sources.

Despite a perception that National Public Radio is politically liberal,
the majority of its sources are actually Republicans and conservatives,
according to a survey released today by Fairness and Accuracy in
Reporting, a left-leaning media watchdog.

"Republicans not only had a substantial partisan edge," according to a
report accompanying the survey, "individual Republicans were NPR's most
popular sources overall, taking the top seven spots in frequency of
appearance." In addition, representatives of right-of-center think tanks
outnumbered their leftist counterparts by more than four to one, FAIR
reported.

NPR ombudsman disputes bias and FAIR responds.

We compared the tilt toward Republicans in 2003 (61 percent to 38 percent) with that found in 1993 (57 percent to 42 percent) to indicate that the tilt is not based on which party is in power--with control of the White House and both houses of Congress reversed, the imbalance remains.

National Media 'Reporters' not conservative

According to a new survey, only 12 percent of local reporters, editors, and media executives are self-described conservatives, while twice as many call themselves liberal. At national news organizations, the gap is even wider - 7 percent conservative vs. 34 percent liberal.

el - The survey did not split out the publishers and editors who decide what stories get played and how played where the bias is in the opposite direction. BTW - here is the resume of that reporter, a feature I will try to do more of.