It's a rough topic to bring up.
I grew up in rural Alabama with NPR, which premiered around 1971, and I probably became attached to it around 1972/1973 timeframe.
In those days, it featured classical music, jazz, opera stuff, and had a literature side to it. News? You have have gotten three hours over the entire day.....it wasn't something you noticed.
Around the early 1990s....I came to note some transition....less jazz, less classical, and less literature/poetry.
Over the past twenty years? It's mostly all news....maybe adding up to twelve hours a day. If you wanted literature, classical music or jazz.....you rarely will find it.
I've become one of those people who'd like some harsh action done on NPR. My primary five suggestions?
1. Move the entire 'team' out of the DC area....preferably to place like Macon, Georgia, Tulsa, Oklahoma, or rural Ohio.
2. Lessen the news coverage.....a lot. Allow a max of five hours a day of news, with one hour of that being state news itself. A full-hour each weekend ought to be devoted to agricultural news or development.
3. Mandate that eight hours of the twenty-four hour cycle has to be classical music, opera, or jazz.
4. Mandate that four hours of the day has to be readings of classical literature (Moby Dick, Tom Sawyer, or the Great Gatsby).
5. Mandate that no employee can be salary-wise more than $80,000 a year and work your way down from there.
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