https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trustYou need to start with former CEO John Lansing. Lansing came to NPR in 2019 from the federally funded agency that oversees Voice of America. Like others who have served in the top job at NPR, he was hired primarily to raise money and to ensure good working relations with hundreds of member stations that acquire NPR’s programming.
Ok there's a somewhat media argument but still Voice of America is American propaganda although they can have fairly good reporting at times(IIRC they reported on drunk Russian soldiers in Belarus before the invasion)
Maher subsequently studied at the Institut français d'études arabes de Damas in Syria and spent time in Lebanon and Tunisia.[2][13][14]
During the volatile Arab Spring period, under a constantly rotating series of NGO affiliations, Maher went to multiple countries that were undergoing U.S.-backed regime change. Beginning in 2011, for example, she traveled multiple times to Tunisia, working with regime-change activists and government officials. In 2012, she traveled to a strategic city on the Turkey-Syria border, which had become a base for Western-backed opposition to Bashar al-Assad. That same year, she traveled to Libya, where the U.S. had just overthrown strongman Muammar Gaddafi.
All this info was on her wikipedia page a few months ago but they seemed to have scrubbed. Such an obvious glowie.