I just had a dose of NPR morning edition, not really by choice - I'd rather get my news online from Daily Kos, The Guardian, etc. - but because my wife likes to listen to them 24/7.
Of course, the GOP speakership fiasco was a main story.
So first, there was a report with lots of interviewing House members. At least 80% of the time was given to the extreme faction that threatens Speakers from the right.
There was no context given about how ridiculous this failure is and how it reflects upon the GOP. There was no mention of McCarthy's Benghazi "Gaffe" (i.e., letting the truth slip out of his lips). Perhaps here we agree it had played a major role. For NPR, it didn't exist. Instead, the entire thing was framed as an uprising of a long-suppressed conservative faction demanding its downtrodden rights.
Needless to say, there was nothing about the track-record of this faction in allowing only the most ridiculous, extremist, time-wasting legislation, while blocking mundane stuff like the near-automatic renewal of national parks programs.
No, nothing at all about how far off the deep end this faction is in terms of objective policy.
No. They of course, were the victims, and NPR gave no hint there is any other way to see it.
To cap it off, they had one of those wingnut House members in for several additional, interminable minutes of an interview, whose questions were Fluffball. "Softball" would not do it justice. The guy just received our ears to pour a Tea Party stump speech into them.
Needless to say, not a single Democrat was given a voice for even a single second. NPR followed the Hastert Rule to the hilt.
And this, from the Ultra-Liberal (TM) NPR.
If you're wondering how on Earth, after 15-20 years of nothing but worsening extremism, endless personal clown shows, and devastating policy failures, the GOP still gets Congressional majorities and is not laughed off the Presidential election by a disgusted public - it is not just gerrymandering or the careful stoking of culture-wars.
Perhaps the biggest factor is the media - the entirety of American media - which keep pretending against all evidence, that present-day GOP are reasonable people.