I don’t ever remember NPR being middle of the road. It was always so far left that I never listen to it. Never mind stop listening to it. 20 or 30 years ago. I never listen to it because it just appalled me right off the bat.
Yep. That was what I noticed as well. I’m in my mid 50s and NPR has always been hard left for as long as I can remember.
All Things Seditious.
It was "not obviously liberal" in the late 1970s, before the Reagan administration.
Reagan made an attempt to zero them out in the mid-80s, and they went completely berzerk.
They had already gone very left-wing by that time though.
When I say "not obviously liberal," I mean in the same sense that the Big 3 TV networks were "not obviously liberal" back in the 1960s. They pushed left-wing causes, but in a subtle way. They had to be subtle because of the "fairness doctrine."
NPR always sounds to me like a well-produced high school radio station.