@Ferrichrome really it's that I want to call attention to this issue that really leads us to a very unfortunate place in society, where people are divided into different camps because without faith in journalism they end up believing entirely different sets of facts.
NPR giving up audience so willingly is both a symptom and a cause for that very antisocial situation.
If people aren't hearing from NPR then they're going to be hearing from someone like Alex Jones or Trump or whoever else.
I don't think it's good that NPR basically handed its microphone to them.