my emotional NPR

I really like National Public Radio. I turn it on to get my news fix and then insist on switching onto the iPod but their coverage of anything and everything is so good that I can't turn it off. Every other day, they'll have a story that will make me cry. There was one about a man who was deported to El Salvador and how a service had pupusas waiting for him at the airport. And whenever they do those specials about the families interviewing each other. MAN! You'd have to be some frosty hearted bastard to not shed a little tear.

And then...

The bias. I know I know I know that they cover as fairly as they possibly can but they obviously skew toward one political mindset. How could they not, they are PUBLIC radio after all. And I know that when I listen to them, just like I know that Fox skews the other way if I ever listen to them. I hate that. Isn't news supposed to be unbiased, even handed, no sides to take? Its what I learned in journalism class at least.

But, with all the other stuff going on in the world it becomes an issue that doesn't really matter because the only person that will feel the need to view the world in an unbiased opinion will make an effort to begin that way in how they take in information and how they transmit their interpretation of it. Eventually we will all fall victims to our own preferences and its our priviledge as Americans in a free speech no big brother country. Maybe I feel that way because I don't feel that my view of the world is being fairly balanced. I wouldn't notice it if I was a Democrat. And were I a Republican who watched Fox, I wouldn't notice the bias there either. I'd be blinded because I was being well fed, a prisoner doesn't care what the meal is as long as it keeps him alive.

Ah what the hell, I'm gonna keep listening to NPR because I really like their stories and their desire to inform and involve their audience. But maybe one day I'll watch Fox too.