I listen to NPR, but cringe heavily during news reports that verbally may be roughly unbiased but are delivered with a tone that is either shining with overwhelming approval or dripping with disdain. I don't need my news delivered to me with a patronizing tone, or opposite. I can make up my own mind; just the facts please.
The best thing by far on NPR, for me at least, is Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal. He's amazing, but some of his understudies try too hard to emulate Kai's playfully slick idolect that it comes off as ersatz.
They publish textual articles too. Their tone has gotten a little more slanted in the past ~6 months but they're still better than a lot of what's out there
The best thing by far on NPR, for me at least, is Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal. He's amazing, but some of his understudies try too hard to emulate Kai's playfully slick idolect that it comes off as ersatz.