I stumbled upon this article about the massive shift of NPR to the far, far, crazy left. It’s written by a 25-year senior journalist who is admittedly left. His perspective is really interesting… albeit not surprising.
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Idk. I don’t follow their reporting… 
"### Allegations of ideological bias[edit]
NPR has been accused of displaying both liberal bias – as alleged in work such as a UCLA and University of Missouri study of Morning Edition – and conservative bias, including criticism of alleged reliance on conservative think-tanks.[89] Public radio host Lisa Simeone, who worked for NPR from 1998 to 2002, accused NPR’s Pentagon reporting of being “little more than Pentagon press releases.”[90] The NPR ombudsman has described how NPR’s coverage of the Israel-Palestinian conflict has been simultaneously criticized as biased by both sides.[91] University of Texas journalism professor and author Robert Jensen has criticized NPR as taking a pro-war stance during coverage of Iraq war protests.[92] During the 2020 election, NPR declined to cover the controversy surrounding a New York Post article on Hunter Biden, saying “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions, …”[93]
In 2024, veteran NPR journalist Uri Berliner accused NPR of demonstrating left-wing bias in its reporting after the 2016 United States presidential election, citing NPR’s approach to coverage of Hunter Biden, the Mueller special counsel investigation, the origin of COVID-19, and the 2023 Israel-Hamas war.[94][95] According to Berliner, focuses on race and identity were prioritized by NPR’s management, while NPR simultaneously lost viewpoint diversity.[96] NPR editor in chief Edith Chapin said that NPR stood behind its work and defended its policies on inclusion.[97]"
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Known that for years. Didn’t need to know the employee population, it was obvious by their stand/editorials on various issues. We have a similar situation with Maryland Public Television whose views closely align with NPR.
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Unfortunately, I too had to drop NPR a couple years ago, whatever goodwill they had is squandered away when they became the mirror opposite of Fox, on the left of reality. Fortunately, I learned long ago there is no absolute truth whatsoever, like everything else in the universe truth is dualistic, believe what you want, it changes nothing. 
From Matt’s link:
An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR, and now, predictably, we don’t have an audience that reflects America.
That wouldn’t be a problem for an openly polemical news outlet serving a niche audience. But for NPR, which purports to consider all things, it’s devastating both for its journalism and its business model.
You know…”All Things Considered"
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You sure about that?? Because there can be some VERY real consequences some day if you are wrong!!
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FJB is CLUELESS, ignore his/her/she banter.
This really got me:
When I suggested we had a diversity problem with a score of 87 Democrats and zero Republicans, the response wasn’t hostile. It was worse. It was met with profound indifference. I got a few messages from surprised, curious colleagues. But the messages were of the “oh wow, that’s weird” variety, as if the lopsided tally was a random anomaly rather than a critical failure of our diversity North Star.
This is the problem with the radical ends of both parties… they’re so busy agreeing with one another within their lopsided world that they have lost the ability to even consider an opposing view.
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They do non-political content sometimes.
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I still remember the day I saw that skit live on SNL. Hilarious!!
That one, along with this one I consider in the top 10 best of SNL.
Sorry about the thread drift. 
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I don’t remember seeing that skit, but that is hilarious. Baldwin came close to breaking twice but held it together.
I don’t remember when I quit watching SNL, but it was probably in the early '80s. Even when I watched it, I was often gone or out late on Saturdays and probably watched less than a quarter of their shows.
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“We don’t need to SELL the news,” MacNeil told the Chicago Tribune in 1983. “The networks hype the news to make it seem vital, important. What’s missing (in 22 minutes) is context, sometimes balance, and a consideration of questions that are raised by certain events.”
The current show is mostly atrocious. Bits are not funny and musical guests are bad. Well, most new music is bad to me anyway, so I suppose that’s part of it. Every now and again there is a good bit though and Weekend update with the current hosts is the best part of the show. I DVR it so I can fast forward through the terrible parts. Can get through a show in 30 minutes or less that way.
Yeah, SnL. is pretty lame these days… Too damn political and far, far left. Although, I did run across this skit on Twitter recently that is pretty damn funny. Really hit me since my nephew is huge into sports better 
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The absolute best part of the show is during Weekend Update when Colin Jost (the whitest guy in America) and Michael Che do “joke swap.” They have to read jokes they wrote for each other, having never seen them before. Che makes Colin read all super-racist jokes. If you’ve never seen it, take a look…
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The best part was when CC, JB, RR and all the other “not ready for prime time” players set the precedent.
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I always enjoy SNL clips that are 10 years old. They never seem funny until they have “aged”.
