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Re:400,000 American homes have dumped pay-TV so far this year by Retric on Thursday August 02, 2012 @08:03PM (#4331763)
I would recommend NPR as a far better fit for that, with that added bonus that it let's you do other things such as housework while you listen.
Re:400,000 American homes have dumped pay-TV so far this year by dinkumthinkum on Friday August 03, 2012 @02:37AM (#4332852)
But if you're the kind of person that thinks alien abductions are real, climate change is not, evolutionary theory is a fraud, government should stay out of our lives except for abortion, and so on then you will probably think NPR is a biased hedonistic den of sin.
Re:400,000 American homes have dumped pay-TV so far this year by ams6110 on Thursday August 02, 2012 @08:38PM (#4331863)
NPR is far from unbiased.
Re:400,000 American homes have dumped pay-TV so far this year by MartinCron on Thursday August 02, 2012 @11:48PM (#4332432)
Here's a serious and legitimate challenge, find me a concrete example of bias in any of NPRs news programs. (Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Top of the hour news updates).

The more editorial programs on public radio (This American Life, On The Media) are more opinionated, and the quality of local news is only as good as your public radio station, but NPR News is as clean as an organization as there has ever been.

Re:400,000 American homes have dumped pay-TV so far this year by asparagui on Friday August 03, 2012 @12:32AM (#4332553)
NPR is roughly middle of the pack for the left-leaning organizations.

Here is a well done statistical study on the subject (jump to the end for nifty charts):

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/groseclose/Media....

Re:400,000 American homes have dumped pay-TV so far this year by Retric on Friday August 03, 2012 @10:03AM (#4334047)
That's a fundamentally biased study that put Fox News in the top 5 least biased news sources.
Re:400,000 American homes have dumped pay-TV so far this year by duaneb on Thursday August 02, 2012 @09:10PM (#4331985)
Unbiased media doesn't exist anymore (if it ever did).
Re:400,000 American homes have dumped pay-TV so far this year by streblo on Thursday August 02, 2012 @10:27PM (#4332205)
It never did
Re:400,000 American homes have dumped pay-TV so far this year by Retric on Thursday August 02, 2012 @08:52PM (#4331912)
Sure, but what in your option is a less biased TV or Radio news source?
Re:400,000 American homes have dumped pay-TV so far this year by rufus_t on Friday August 03, 2012 @04:10AM (#4333070)
There aren't any. People use the words "biased" and "unbiased" mainly to express degrees of agreement.

Everyone's view is fair and balanced in their own eyes.

Re:400,000 American homes have dumped pay-TV so far this year by tkahn6 on Friday August 03, 2012 @01:21AM (#4332689)
The biggest source of bias for PBS Newshour and NPR is the ITV reporting pieces that they occasionally use.

It's so obviously biased and emotionally charged. Makes me cringe. But it's pretty detectable bias so it's easy to disregard.