I can't stand NPR. The extreme liberal bias is pretty bad, but even if you look past that there are infinite layers of obnoxiousness. The elitism, the trivial, pointless subjects, the constant obsession with irrelevant minor conflicts in Africa or Afghanistan while refusing to cover important US events, the way their syndicated BBC segment hosts always speak in the most self-important, patronizing manner, but now they S-P-E-A-K E-X-T-R-A S-L-O-W-L-Y so all the brown refugees can understand them, even though the real problem isn't rate of speech but doing RP out the wazoo... I could go on for hours. When my favorite stations go into commercial breaks I start flipping the stations, even though I know most of the frequencies by heart at this point. I'd say my top 3 annoying things to encounter are: * Rap or trash pop * Loud, obnoxious commercials * NPR segment about the transgender weightlifters or amputee malaysian gymnasts or some other shit nobody cares about And NPR is making a strong place towards being #1. Another odd thing I notice about NPR in more recent years: While it always had liberal bias, it used to cover the occasional informative bit. Nowadays it seems like if they ever happen on a topic that would be informative even despite the liberal bias, such as math or a classic book or a politically neutral news event, they cover it in the most autistic and useless manner possible. They only focus on some small, inconsequential, trivial aspect of it and don't cover any of the important areas. I feel like it's programming designed for "intellectuals" who want to feel like they are learning something, but for some reason are trying to avoid learning the smallest thing at any cost. Like a diet coke that tastes sweet but doesn't have any sugar. I don't really understand why anyone would want that, though.