I do have tendency to avoid NPR and at times get fed up with PBS.  BTW, if you never have seen the Drudge Report site, Drudge himself does very little reporting on his one, instead he collects links to other news stories that admittedly support a certain viewpoint, but in truth all the news agencies do something similar.  They are liars if try to claim otherwise.   Compare what they cover and how they cover it.  Even most conservatives would admit that the Fox News tag line of fair and balanced was a lie.  They balance out just about every other news agency.
As far as the other part of your post.  Liberalism points the way to communism.