” It would be interesting to see if there was a message of record (email or other directive) that came from on high to push this and I bet there was. But the fun would be to expose it.”
I don’t think they need to send messages from on high - they do something even more effective (from their point of view) - they put true believer as announcers and let them do their things. Similar to terrorist cells.
Don’t buy that premise. Someway somehow however seemimgly innocuous there’s a talking point outline and NPR is on message in every show. In the case of globull warming worming its way into every NPR production, comedy, music, “news”, pets,health, you name it the threads are there.