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Maybe, although your standard "we have this congressmen to talk about the last thing Trump did" just depends. It's usually like, whoever is on some committee, so if it's an R they bullshit the interview, if it's a D, the world is ending. It only feels a bit overcorrected if they don't push back on the bullshit, but the last interview I heard did include that. Just not always.
Still a majority of the programming is like, "this random town has an annual event that's weird but cool, but it's under threat from climate change" which is just like... apolitical if you understand facts.
I don't have any specific examples saved or anything, but as someone who listened to NPR on a regular basis for years, there were tons of times since 2016 where the coverage absolutely leaned right, or where you can tell that they were softening certain things so as to not appear liberal.
Ah that's a while back. Makes me wonder when they started getting that accusation of being liberal and what kind of coverage that was. Bush era?
No, it was after Obama and during Trump when it really ramped up noticeably. And I know I'm not the only one because I've seen other people saying the same thing.
But I guess they were getting the accusation before that... They just didn't seem to care until Trump.