Tom Rosenstiel

The final installment of our exploration into the question: Does NPR have a liberal bias? In this segment we hear from conservative listeners Sam Negus and Kevin Putt. Then FAIR's Steve Rendall provides his take on our endeavor. PEW's Tom Rosenstiel reports his findings in examining NPR's coverage for bias. And finally, Ira Glass returns to discuss what he learned from our coverage.

OTM takes up the question posed by Ira Glass: Does NPR have a liberal bias? Brooke wrestles first with the (surprisingly hard to define) terms. What is liberal? What is bias? What is NPR? We then hear three different perspectives on NPR’s political leanings from political scientist Daniel Hallin, media researcher Tom Rosenstiel and conservative volunteer-listener Sam Negus.

Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism; vice chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists, and co-author of Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload, talks about how news consumers can discern valuable information from dross in the age of "document dumps" a la WikiLeaks.

A recent study found that almost two-thirds of American newspapers publish less foreign news than they did just three years ago, while half of all papers have increased the amount of state and local news they publish. Tom Rosenstiel is director of Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, ...

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