 The entire mainstream media follows this to a T. I'm going to quote him. It wasn't just NPR, it's all of them. There's an unspoken consensus about the stories we should pursue and how they should be framed. It's frictionless. One story after another about instances of supposed racism, transphobia, signs of the climate apocalypse, Israel doing something bad and the dire threat of Republican and Trump policies. It's almost like an assembly line.