I used to listen to WNYC constantly in high school (late '00s), and when I was delivering pizza between semesters in college.
I feel like the fluff-to-content ratio has increasedto the point where it doesn't stand apart anymore, and it's just upper-middle-class background noise. Maybe my interests are just shifted, but I feel like there's a lot less news then there was five years ago. I feel like a lot of what they report on just isn't important or relevant.
But I don't listen much anymore, so ironically I might be missing all of the good content and then ragging on NPR for not having good content.