There was a very clear cultural shift at NPR. Outside of their straight news, it seemed like culturally they started to swing left on culture-war topics. Their

There was a very clear cultural shift at NPR. Outside of their straight news, it seemed like culturally they started to swing left on culture-war topics. Their reporting remains one of the least biased out there, but in terms of podcasts and shows, a pretty clear bias appeared. It was kind of strange, because I'm generally a pretty liberal person, and I appreciated NPR for frequently challenging my own biases with very well executed stories. I feel less and less challenged lately. If I had to speculate, I'd say it came down the explosion in podcasts giving them a much larger audience than just folks listening to the radio, coupled with a sort of org-wide understanding that media had a hand in creating the culture war as it stood. You see the same sort of more-outspokenness in a lot of other media outlets doing their level best to balance out the impact of Fox News, with varying degrees of success.