If you think there is an issue here with another side that is worthy of consideration, why not present that other side? Explain how NPR is
not a tedious, humorless, trend-following sack of buzzword-dependent fake journalism. Taibbi had a point of view, and laid it out. I don’t see that as a problem. It’s presented as opinion. Of course it’s exaggerated for effect—that’s just good rhetoric. I haven’t heard their broadcast in two years, but I’m sure there must have been at least one non-moronic story mixed in with the typical NPR pablum. I remember hearing some excellent stuff, in past years. I hope it’s not all gone.
EDIT: What I see as his larger point is more interesting than the NPR stuff: how their being lapped by non-traditional media is some kind of unfathomable mystery to the folks at the Times and NPR, but dead obvious to anyone outside their journalism school bubble.