We sometimes listen to the local npr station. I should listen more often, but when I do, I often hear news framed to support one side of any given issue. They don't have a bunch of people yelling at each other or being direct about it, but the bias is there. I used to listen to 780am Chicago when I lived within range of it. It's a CBS station that mostly read news headlines, maybe a small summery, weather, and the time. I'd say that station is (was? It's been a minute...) less biased. And maybe even some evidence against my claim that the private sector can't handle it. However, I assume they don't report on things unfavorable to their sponsers . Anyway, yea, NPR tends to be politically biased, but they do have some protection against ad revenue bias. Even in my dream world NPR ends up biased towards the money flow (government in general), but being biased towards the public is our best case scenario.