As for NPR presenting both sides of the political spectrum, I can think of
some liberal (Nina Totenberg, Mara Liasson, Daniel Schorr, etc. ) or
ultra-liberal (Bill Moyers) reporters with NPR -- exactly who do you say
is
presenting the conservative point of view there?

That's the point, Stinger. When news is presented on NPR, it isn't
presented with respect to a point of view. The facts are reported,
completely and in depth. I agree that when there are editorials, in
particular, Daniel Schorr's, they are generally of a liberal nature. Daniel
Schorr usually gets me to shout at the radio a few times each week. But,
when it comes to widespread, general coverage of topics that are truly
important both domestically and internationally, no one covers them better
than NPR. My own feeling is that I don't need anyone's editorial comment,
period, and I wish they'd do away with them in all the media. Other
major-media outlets in the US are mainly editorial; in my opinion, NPR is
the least editorialized news source there is. There doesn't need to be a
presentation of a liberal or conservative point of view -- and I find NPR to
be refreshingly free of it, for the most part. News programs that present
the news in the context of a shouting match between ideological opponents
are absolutely the lowest form of journalism that exists.