Lefty (mostly ex-) NPR listener here. I'm sick of their "horse race" coverage of elections, which has gotten just awful. I suppose it's a combination of that b

Lefty (mostly ex-) NPR listener here. I'm sick of their "horse race" coverage of elections, which has gotten just awful. I suppose it's a combination of that being what "sells", being very easy (you don't need to do any actual journalism! You just have pundits Monday-morning quarterback campaign strategy instead!), and being "apolitical" so perceived as useful to support an attempt to avoid bias accusations, which accusations they seem very worried about but will never stop short of their becoming an outright right-wing mouthpiece. This has gotten much worse as "election season" has expanded to be like three years out of every four. I cannot overemphasize the degree to which this single thing has gotten me to shift from "they're a decent centrist source" all the way over to "I actively dislike them". It's so fucking frustrating for them to waste time talking about this crap instead of going, you know, is any of this shit coming out of politicians mouths even true? But no, how will it perhaps affect polling? How might their opponent respond? That's the relevant question. JFC. On top of this: the ads. They run so very many ads. Between the ads for "sponsors", the ads for their own programs and podcasts, and the pledge drives, they've got about as many ads as commercial radio. This did not used to be the case, and it sucks. [EDIT] Oh and they continue to give David Brooks an outlet. What a complete hack. That's annoying when anyone does it.