I’m just going to share a chat convo I had with a lib friend about NPR:

<Me> Just because [NPR] isn’t outright stating what you should think doesn’t mean they’re not trying to sway your opinion. Propaganda is just as much (if not more) about emphasis as it is about fabrication.
<Me> Who are the “both sides”?
<Him> NPR gives equal time to all views
<Me> How often do they feature Marxist-Leninists? Anarchists? Maoists?
<Him> NPR does a pretty good job of presenting enough info for me to form my own opinion
<Me> How often does it bring communists on to speak?
<Him> Don’t know
<Me> What do you mean, “you don’t know”? If you listen to NPR on a regular basis, you should be able to tell me roughly how often it includes communist voices.
<Him> I mean I haven’t really paid attention to the exact view points. only that I get multiple sides of the story.
<Me> How can you claim they represent “all sides” when you aren’t even paying attention to what people are saying?
<Him> I am paying attention to what they are saying.
<Me> But you just said that you “haven’t really paid attention to the exact view points.”
<Him> Bad wording on my part. I paid attention to the view points. But not to the political leanings of the person making the view
<Me> It shouldn’t be hard to infer someone’s political leanings from their viewpoints. They’re going to make points that are in line with their views.
<Him> I dunno. I don’t fit cleanly into any given political category.