It depends a lot on the topic. For example, their reporting of Supreme Court decisions is generally factual and straightforward with decent analysis. But there

It depends a lot on the topic. For example, their reporting of Supreme Court decisions is generally factual and straightforward with decent analysis. But there are definitely a lot of stories like you describe. I often get bored with it and switch to something else. My local station plays BBC News for an hour in the mornings and the contrast is strong. The BBC still does those kind of stories, but a lot less. The most remarkable contrast is interviews. NPR seems to believe that the purpose of interviewing someone is to give them access to an audience so they can say what’s on their mind. The BBC seems to believe that the purpose is to question them and extract information from them.