I have long thought that public broadcasting is addicted to corporate feeding troughs.
Since the widow of McDonald's left an ungodly amount of money to NPR, it seems that money has come at the cost of public radio serving the full public good.
Though public television does costume drama and mystery well, big oil has underwritten it for a couple of decades. Save for Bill Moyers, long gone from the public TV schedule, there is little to no representation of the whole gamut of events of the day.
Whether it be media mergers, trade pacts, Bernie Sanders, the true events at Fukushima, climate change, oil and gas pipeline spills, or any news that the corporate powers do not care for, blackouts of such news events are the norm.
It has been years since I have had a membership to NPR. It has not represented the world as it is in a very long time.