That’s interesting. I’ll take a look at the stats. But as I’m about to run out I’ll offer one quick insta-thought, subject to correction.

The number of complaints of leftwing versus rightwing bias is only revealing if you know the ideological breakdown of listeners generally. For example if there are 10 million left of center listeners and 2 million right of center listeners, it’s hardly shocking that in these politically charged times the absolute number of complaints would be of rightwing bias. Moreover, elite journalists complain all the time that they get complants from “both sides” as if to prove they aren’t biased. But this is nonsense. Who doubts that Daniel Schorr gets complaints from people who think he’s too “right wing”? That hardly means he’s rightwing. Rather it just illustrates how far to the left some of his listerners are.