Or, as I asked in the OP, are they only doing their famous in depth coverage on trump?

accuse everything of being 'LIBRUL" if it ain't kissin' their asses.

than it is calling him out on his bigotry and all around asshattery.

be promising free healthcare, free education, billions of jobs, etc.

to appear less hardcore rightwinger.

They are all over both sides.

I don't get to listen all day.
Just when I do, it's either a story about trump or a trump supporter.

NPR has right wing management since before 2003, when they became one of the pimps for the Iraq War ..

I shut them off more than 13 years ago ....

...but, they are the best available.

I don't see the point of boycotting when they don't rely on ad revenue.

from the last couple of times I donated, lol.

...and as with PBS, the GOP has wanted to completely gut it for years.

solemn tones last few months.

Not since the Bush years when he had the top execs replaced because NPR was questioning his war hard-on. They've swung farther and farther to the right ever since. And then there is the Koch Bros. Buy-in, and the barrage of corporate commercials. Everything I don't want in so-called public broadcasting.

That said, when I do listen to broadcast FM in my car, it is usually the local college station. They're affiliated with NPR, and run five minutes of headlines on the hour, with none of the commercials. At 4pm they switch to NPR's afternoon drive-time stuff and that's when I switch to internet radio over my phone.

I hate it just as much as you, but Trump IS the news right now.

And as a daily NPR listener, I can attest that it's NOT all-Trump all the time.

Thank you!

I got sick of them bending over backwards to be "balanced."
Sorry, sometimes conservative and corporatist BS needs to be called out.

Giving climate-change deniers an equal platform when the vast majority of scientists were saying for years that there is no doubt that human activities are changing the planet is the worst kind of abdication of journalistic responsibility.

It's the best on terrestrial radio, but it sucks.

As for the best coverage, there isn't hardly a day that I don't have to shut it off and explain to my wife why that last story wasn't quite true.

The things that drive me crazy are 1) when they leave out vital pieces of information that really make a difference in the story and 2) when they bring on an "expert" but fail to explain that the expert is a from a far right wing think tank funded by the Kochs etc. That used to be a daily occurrence.

As the RW pressure went up on them my listening time has fallen drastically. From having it on all day in the '70s to morning and night news in the 90s to about 15 minutes a day today.

Think they would be much better off without Innskeep also.

let him get in several "Obama is an egoist" shots. One of many GOP loons they've hosted this year, right when my alarm goes off at 6:30 am.

Otoh, our extremely conservative neighbors were shocked to find my kitchen radio was tuned to 3 different NPR stations, I think international news, Culver City or Pasadena, California and Atlanta at that time. They're nice, traditional conservatives, though, and still friends in spite of yet more evidence of how "radical left" we are.

I worry about influence from the Kochs every time I think of NPR these days, but NPR news is still "liberal" in that it presents a broader range of truthful facts and ideas than other stations. (Jane Austen's "liberality of ideas.&quot

Liberals want openness and liberality of ideas.

Conservatives tend not to be comfortable with "new" or "different" ideas, less liberality please.

And both left radicals and right reactionaries refuse to admit that there could be any truth but their truth. Of course. Should have figured NPR has been under the bus all along.

How is it your experience is so different?

And a story where they say here is the latest ridiculous thing trump said is hardly worth boycotting over.

They are a true news organization. They have both sides on but tend not to favor one over the other. There are some on the left who expect them to be the Fox of the left, but that is not their role. They do a great job of letting right wing assholes look like assholes.

I think it is telling they have repeatedly asked Trump to be interviewed and he has refused.