My biggest gripe about NPR is the condescending tone of their announcers - the presumption that the proletariat need to be led (obviously by them, since they know what's best for us), and the way they expect us pee-ons to git all flusterbated at them big wurdz they uze. Gor-lee... I mus have a mullet, a NASCAR t-shirt, and be doin' mah sister if I vote fer Bush, or own a gun, or support the war in eye-rack... guess they're waitin' fer me to show up on "Springer" any minute now.
I remember a show a few weeks back discussing the Burr-Hamilton duel. The reporter kept pushing and pushing the idea of a Gore-Bush duel to "settle the issue".
Mind you, this was a few weeks ago (2004), not 2001. I found it particularly disturbing that such an extreme "anti-gun" media wing would push the idea of a duel with such tenacity, and such seeming disregard for the severity of such an action;s conclusion.
My father used to listen daily - I think it helped get his BP up to make it through the day.
He referred to it as National People's Radio, and used to tell me he listened so he knew what the opposition was up to.