You sort of already have this with NPR, right? No really, NPR softballs most of the ridiculous things we're seeing in the US right now. Rather than focusing on

You sort of already have this with NPR, right? No really, NPR softballs most of the ridiculous things we're seeing in the US right now. Rather than focusing on the very real humanitarian crisis of US border detention camps, we instead hear human interest pieces about how difficult it is to be a lawyer there (as the lawyers desperately try and send a message for help that is calmly ignored). News about the new reality of plastic-contaminated water? Nah, let's instead focus on the legal drama of the lawsuits. Climate change is real, sure, but for NPR the real challenge is that it's tough being a climate change scientist and how mean people can be to you for just reporting the science. And I haven't even gotten to the political stories or the foreign policy stories. NPR is all about re-interpreting everything about the uncertainty of the next 40 years within a lens of urbane detachment and disinterested compassion. "Just the news," without any mention of the existential crisis that you call panic."