Several posts here have interesting, critical comments on the past and recent content of NPR. Sounds like some of the HN audience wants content that is some of

Several posts here have interesting, critical comments on the past and recent content of NPR. Sounds like some of the HN audience wants content that is some of entertaining, interesting, informative and, instead, is getting some quite different content, superficial, and based on some topics common in current journalism and/or partisan politics. Why?? For "partisan politics" content, one candidate explanation is simply money. But for journalism, that's more difficult. A guess is that journalism is an old profession with some accepted assumptions and techniques. One such assumption is: "Keep it short, simple, superficial. Avoid credible information as too difficult, demanding of the audience." One technique is: "Keep it emotional about problems of people." With the Web, for a focused audience journalism may be changing. Maybe I'll pay attention to journalism again when, for a start. they report numerical data with graphs, done like STEM field students do.