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Originally Posted by The Third Man
Nothing wrong about making money. If the opinion is outside the mainstream the money will flee. All the sources you list make money on advertise'rs money. Not on purely political lean.
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NPR also gets subsidized by the government. When the Republicans have some say over their funding, NPR is left of center, but very close to the center. Since they've not had to worry the last few years, they've drifted farther left IMHO.
Note that I listen to NPR every single morning, it's the only broadcast media I hear (or see since I don't watch TV news) every day. I'm pretty aware of how the broadcast "feels" on a day to day basis. I have a friend at NPR, too (and Bloomburg, and the NYT (know a lot of reporters, lol)).
That said, you are right, NPR takes adverts like any other, they just call them "contributions" and pretend they are above it all. They also get in-kind contributions, too (notice how they rank high on google... accident? Um, no.)