Ever since the 1990s, when NPR began accepting corporate "underwriting" (read: advertising) for its programming, its content became more and more corporate in its slant on news and politics. Nowadays its content is just as pro-corporate as the major networks, Fox News, CNN, or MSNBC. The only difference is how NPR continues to play to its niche audience of highly-educated, cultural hipsters and lovers of nostalgia like Live From Here. Like MSNBC, NPR substitutes liberal views on culture and identity politics for any liberal or lefty views on economics or class warfare, which its centrist Dem listeners are happy to accept as being sufficiently left wing for them, since the listeners of both networks tend to be comfortable members of the top 10% classes. They are fine with the economic status quo...