I can honestly say even before the beginning of CV, I had become disenchanted with NPR. For decades NPR was an ad free public sponsored station that seemed trustworthy. Then a decade or two age, one year they began with a few minutes at the top of the hour for paid sponsors, in a few years these paid sponsor ads became much more frequent. Still I would listen to a program here and there that I found credible. Since CV I can honestly say I rarely listen to NPR and when I give it a try within minutes I have to turn it off, as it is the same old rhetoric, with new younger voices, who seem to spew information that only younger people would listen to who do not know any recent history that is more than 5 years ago. I think the topper for me was a young woman commenting a few years ago as though Nuclear Bomb was no big deal in an authority manner on Nuclear WAR. I as someone born at the end of WWII who has lived through the Cold War, with the threat of nuclear war hanging over our heads daily as children, along with hearing the horror stories of what the the bombing of the people in the two large cities of Japan had done; and then witnessing young men of my generation sent to the horrors of the Vietnam War we witnessed on TV every day, I wondered just where did this person receive their education? To hear this person giving voice to such rubbish as though she actually thought she knew what she was talking about, who plainly had no idea of what hell horror she was talking about, was the final validation that NPR was a sham of garbage talk propaganda with no credibility at all. Thank you for a place to give a rant I have carried for a long time. Glad to see the other comments that acknowledge an overwhelming awarenesses of how not NPR is in it to provide the public with thoughtful none biased commentary .