Does NPR lean to the left? Let’s answer that question with another question: Was Jimmy Carter a lousy President?
A new analysis of campaign finance documents shows that NPR’s board members have overwhelmingly supported Democrat candidates and other left wing groups. Unsurprising, perhaps, but interesting to see the actual numbers.
US News reveals the specifics:
Since 2004, members of the boards of NPR and the NPR Foundation, the public broadcaster’s fundraising arm, have contributed nearly $2.2 million to federal candidates, parties, and PACs, of which $1.95 million, or 89 percent, has gone to Democratic candidates and liberal-leaning political action committees.
Officers and trustees of the NPR Foundation, which has no control over the organization’s programming, have given substantially to national political campaigns in recent years. According to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, this group’s members (as listed on NPR’s most recent available annual report, from fiscal year 2008) have given almost $2.1 million to political campaigns in the last eight years. Fully 89 percent of this giving was to Democrats and progressive organizations. These figures include all federal contributions since the 2004 election cycle, the first in which “soft money” contributions were banned. “Soft money” refers to money given to a party for non-campaign activities, which until being banned in 2002 were unlimited and largely unregulated.
There’s a reason, apparently, that all those NPR stations are located on the left side of the dial.
Source: US News
