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Sure, but I would like journalism that at least tries. On All Things Considered on NPR a couple of weeks ago one of the hosts was interviewing someone about pe

• Notanothertoo 5y ago
  It's part of their brand, I have so many hardcore liberal friends "npr is not biased". They also rarely entertain counter arguments ever, and they take a pc twist to everything. Few years ago they were pushing that banks were biased against black people (directly and intentional) because they on average had higher interest rates. Completely ignoring the broader societal segregation that causes minority concentration in certain neighborhoods and those neighborhoods on average at the whole end up being lower income higher risk. Obviously there are many problems with the modern "segregated" neighborhoods and why the exist at all but the banks were just using their risk models. They want your money regardless of skin color.. Not that the right is any better, although they don't presume to know as often, I think the biggest issue I have with the left is the lack of internal accountability and productive discourse. I remember 2010-2015, I had many liberal friends that wouldn't here an argument unless it came from a "well respected" academic study. As if there aren't problems with the paper review process or that any ideas outside of high Academia are worthwhile. But I digress...