----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I have heard a great deal about the "liberal bias" of PBS & NPR as of late, both from consertives who dispise this "bias" and from some liberals (here on screen-l) who think its o.k.. From an analytical point of view this type of debate is disturbing. It expresses the banal assumption that there are three perspetives -consertive, liberal, middle- that are possible on any topic or issue. It also assumes that there is a single liberal position, an absudrity! To me there are far more interesting ways to look atPBS & NPR than a simple liberal / consertive split. For example I believe that the "bias" of NPR news is not for one political position or another but rather it is a bias of power. When the democrats were in the majority I found that the democratic partly line had the priority in NPR's reporting in that it was expressed first and perhapse in greater detail that the republician line. Since the election I find that the oppsite is true. Does anyone else have example of a non political bias to PBS & NPR? -Douglas