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In DC voter registration is a public record.

Berliner's point isn't altered at all if the lack of Republicans at NPR is self-selection. It's still a problem for lack of diversity at NPR.

Obviously OAN and Newsmax are worse than NPR in by almost any standard. That doesn't change Berliner's point either. NPR, when it takes public funding, incurs a special obligation to be representative in a way it utterly fails to be.

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In my opinion, conservatives typically aren’t interested in exploring an issue but rather they are highly opinionated, and convinced in their own point of view which they want others to share.

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That's my experience with people with strong political views in general. I've seen no difference on either side that way here, for example.

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Why would any legitimate news organization go out of its way to recruit sociopathic nihilists just because that's the route one of the mainstream parties has consciously gone down

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No one remotely suggested they do that. Your implication that all Republicans and conservatives are sociopathic nihilists only shows something about you, not them.

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Are you under the impression that anyone who works in D.C. lives in D.C.?

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No, it doesn't matter to Berliner's point. He did a sample and the results were very skewed.

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