NPR certainly targets its core audience. Listen to most stories on higher education, for example. They talk about how hard it is to get into college and how com

NPR certainly targets its core audience. Listen to most stories on higher education, for example. They talk about how hard it is to get into college and how competitive it is. They typically forget that relatively few Americans attend highly selective institutions, with a large number not even attending four-year universities. The NY Times falls into this same trap. Another example is religion, or lack thereof. America is a religious place, but NPR reports little on religion. However I might reluctantly grant you that NPR does not "target" its listeners. The truth might be even more concerning: they are not even aware of their upper-middle-class bias, so they think it is perfectly normal for all high school kids to worry about getting into Harvard.