EVERY TIME there's an OP about a diatribe on NPR;

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20. The flagship news programs ATC and Morning Edition are at issue here

It doesn't matter whether Terry Gross is a great interviewer--she is, but that's not the point.

Morning Edition and ATC routinely offer unchallenged airtime to Republican and Conservative commentators. Any time anything at all happens in the Senate, they rush to give Mitch McConnell five minutes to air his views, followed by a briefly paraphrased summation of some lower-tier Democrat's opposing view. That's an exaggeration, of course, but not by much.

Just recently, in the long runup to The Fiscal Cliff, they featured Grover Norquist, and it went more or less like this:
Steve Inskeep was pretty rough on Grover this morning on NPR

Cokie Roberts is aired at least twice every Monday morning to rattle off the week's Conservative talking points, and no one dares to challenge even a single syllable out of her mouth.

EJ Dionne and David Brooks do their schtick on Friday afternoons, and never once has Brooks been called out for his bullshit--not once--nor has anyone had the nerve to point out on air that he has never been right about anything.

All Things Considered also devotes an annoying amount of airtime to low-value fluff pieces, like long reports on cookbooks and and the etiquette of proper champagne selection. These may be of interest to certain listeners, but they're hardly important news stories, and they certainly shouldn't drive other, more significant stories off the air.

I don't have specific verbatim examples because I listen on my way to and from work, and it's difficult for me to jot down notes while driving.

However, NPR's biggest current offenses in this regard are their utter failure to challenge the media orthodoxy on Social Security or who's at fault in the recent Fiscal Cliff debacle, not to mention the upcoming Debt Ceiling nonsense. They are afraid to take a stand; that is, they are so terrified of being labeled Liberal that they refuse to identify Republican bullshit even when Republicans use NPR to catapult the propaganda.