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I work with a bunch of Brits and they say the BBC leans heavily left like NPR here.
by vdnkh 12y ago
I work with a bunch of Brits and they say the BBC leans heavily left like NPR here.
- dragonwriter 12y ago"leans heavily left" and "like NPR" are not mutually consistent descriptions.
- vdnkh 12y agoNPR does lean heavily left. I listen to it every day. I wasn't implying anything other than the BBC and NPR both lean left.
- droopyEyelids 12y agoI think calling something that leans left "left leaning" rather than "unbiased" while in a left-leaning crowd like news.y is going to be a dead end.
- _delirium 12y agoI read/listen to a bit of both (despite living in Denmark), and they strike me as leaning upper-class more than anything else, especially NPR. High culture, art museums and classical music, cultured fancy vacation destinations (Venice! Paris!), that kind of thing. Which all strikes me as more bourgeois than left. The upper classes aren't very culturally conservative, and are embarrassed by reactionary groups with lower-class bases, like UKIP or the Tea Party, so could be grouped on the left if your idea of left is opposing such groups. But they aren't very left economically, and keep their distance from lower-class movements on the left too, anything that gets too "red". In a Danish context I would imagine the archetypical NPR listener voting for the Social Liberals, who are basically in the exact center (socially liberal, economically free-market, but not radically so in either category).
- task_queue 12y agoIn the US there is no economic left. The left and right are distinguished by their social policy.
- Nimitz14 12y agoThen your coworkers are idiots. People in the US have absolutely no idea what "heavily left" means in Europe.