Is NPR a reliable news source?

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11. I started listening to them around watergate.. early 70's

And they were my go-to radio station both in the house and car. They were very, very good at progressive news and were leaders for news on impeachment and all the administration antics after.

Up until the great purge. If you never listened to them before, you might not notice a change in coverage and perspective, but it is very decidedly more conservative than it was. Pretty much right of center on all issues now.

For example, to this day, they will carry a sound bite of trump lying, and not correct or fact check it. Just let him speak and then they move on to something else.

That isn't reporting. It's genuflecting. Maybe in a literal sense they just reported what he said, but without fact checking it comes across as true and that is unacceptable.

If you listen to impeachment coverage, it's all about how the dems are hurting themselves. How he is being hounded. Sure, they will cover what schiff or pelosi say - eventually. But most of their coverage is talking to conservative voices like christie, or sanders, or other zealots no longer at the wh.

So yeah, they have a conservative filter, and the net is a conservative reporting outlook.