NPR’s 'How to Think' Drift

A veteran NPR editor argues the network moved from reporting facts to prescribing interpretations and 'telling listeners how to think.' That shift, he says, produced internal alarms and helped erode public trust in the network. The allegation is notable because it comes from an insider with longstanding institutional knowledge. — If public broadcasters begin to substitute interpretive instruction for neutral reporting, it accelerates distrust of media institutions and raises stakes for regulation, funding, and civic cohesion.