I don't believe corporate radio is balanced Bill Hahn, and NPR is corporate sponsored radio, just like the the for-profit stations.

What you don't seem to understand is that without news, debate, and opinion from across the political spectrum, nothing is balanced.

Because you like to think of NPR as being "in the middle" doesn't make it a balanced view. Intelligent, thoughtful people aren't using Fox News as the yardstick by which we measure accurate, fair, or balanced reporting, any more than we are using WBAI to do the same.

Amy Goodman's program is the only place I have heard people like Edward Said. Now, if Edward Said is too "unbalanced" for you, so be it. But he was (and is) considered a great thinker by many people around the world.

American news and opinion media is hopelessly imbalanced right now because of corporate influences. It is very rare, even on NPR, for any kind of reporting that challenges the Beltway line of thinking, to appear in the American media. Americans have no idea what frames debates on issues from a variety of international perspectives, for instance, because the only voices from non-US sources we ever get are British.

I'm not going to argue with an NPR supporter about how unbalanced any news that comes from outside their small, little world is. Because it is the typical NPR listener, just like the typical PBS viewer, or ABC viewer, etc that is out of balance and out of touch with the rest of the world. Not the other way around.