NPR in Red America

The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan spotted this one. A conservative fan of NPR says he isn’t unique:

I knew other NPR listeners in rural Nebraska: electrical journeymen, shop keepers, school teachers. They noticed NPR’s political and religious blind spots. But they appreciated its consistent effort to put policy before personality and substance before scandal. I am not sure if these virtues are conservative, but the people who valued them were.

Attempts to spot and highlight media bias have, I think, caused us to overestimate its importance in media coverage. ... Rural Americans are no more susceptible to being buffaloed by liberal bias than their suburban or urban counterparts.

Like I said, the gulf between Blue and Red American is not as wide as the media will have you believe.