Of all things where I am an expert, NPR misinforms in the direction of outrage. I can only assume that is their standard practice. It’s shameful that they are tax paper funded.
If somebody has an example of a story that NRP did a good job of accurately informing the consumer, I would love to read it and change my mind.
The best thing by far on NPR, for me at least, is Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal. He's amazing, but some of his understudies try too hard to emulate Kai's playfully slick idolect that it comes off as ersatz.
Have you ever watched a programming conference talk on something you're particularly knowledgeable about - surprise, surprise, there are always things that can be improved.
And besides, unless you are an expert in everything you alone cannot be the judge of this without help.
The way they report on the Military Industrial Complex, the War on Drugs, and our foreign policy misadventures is maddening, but I don't think it's done to intentionally deceive. It feels more like they're trying to be objective by echoing chatter and headlines without injecting any critical analysis.
But that's just my bias as a "lefty".
If they did the article or podcast would be an order of magnitude longer - also, could you cite some specific passages, because I'm not familiar with the NPR going into some impassioned defence of the War on Drugs for example.
If you want to know what wrong with the world ask an anarchist, whether you stay and listen to the solution is up to you.
It's not the defense, it's the reporting on it at face value without question. Positions can be challenged by data, and opinions are often offered up by "experts", but this and many other subjects are never implicitly challenged, because "neutral".
If you could save me the effort, I'd be interested in you channeling an anarchist perspective in how to fix things (I'm already reasonably aware of what's broken).