NPR has been a joke for some time.
For me, it was when I actually started looking at other sources and realizing what a collection O’clowns (seemingly serious, but not really worthy of anything important) clowns.
Thousands of very wealthy clowns, from janitors to engineers to rows upon rows of exquisitely paid producers, senior producers and executive producers, all over the country, costing us billions, telling us in story after story to give them more, then breaking for a fund-raiser.