I am a professor at a major research university. You'll be shocked to learn that I'm also a liberal Democrat.

And here's another surprise: I listen to National Public Radio.

Everyone knows that NPR caters mainly to liberals, just like our elite universities do. We just don't usually say it out loud. That's because we're afraid we might corroborate President Trump, who has repeatedly distorted what we do. But the only way to fight his lies is to be honest ourselves.

Back in May, Trump signed an executive order instructing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — which Congress created in 1967 — to stop funding NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service. According to a White House social media post that accompanied the order, NPR and PBS "spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as 'news.'"

That's a propaganda statement in its own right. There is no evidence — none — that NPR spreads "radical" falsehoods in its news coverage. But it does have a liberal bias.

Indeed, it caters to people just like me. According to a 2019 Pew survey, 87 percent of people who name NPR as their main source of news are Democrats. Only 12 percent are Republicans. That's not a skew — it's a chasm.

And yes, audience-capture influences NPR's news coverage. In a

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