NPR, euphemisms for Fascism in the Trump era

I'm sick of hearing the Corporate Spin on NPR
I grew up listening to NPR
every morning, ride in the car with the parents
every evening. NPR has changed
it's worse and worse under Fascist Trump
it got worse after NPR
started doing "ads" for their "sponsors"
it got worse after McDonald's founder
gave NPR $225 Million

"As of 2009, corporate sponsorship made up 26% of the NPR budget"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR

n contrast with commercial broadcasting, NPR's radio broadcasts do not carry traditional commercials, but has advertising in the form of brief statements from major sponsors which may include corporate slogans, descriptions of products and services, contact information such as website addresses and telephone numbers.

These statements are called underwriting spots and, unlike commercials, are governed by specific FCC restrictions in addition to truth in advertising laws; they cannot advocate a product or "promote the goods and services" of for-profit entities.

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In a controversial act, NPR banned in 2009 the use of the word "torture" in the context of the Bush administration's use of enhanced interrogation techniques.

 NPR's Ombudswoman Alicia Shepard's defense of the policy was that "calling waterboarding torture is tantamount to taking sides."But Berkeley Professor of Linguistics Geoffrey Nunberg pointed out that virtually all media around the world, other than what he called the "spineless U.S. media", call these techniques torture.

 In an article which criticized NPR and other U.S. media for their use of euphemisms for torture, Glenn Greenwald discussed what he called the enabling "corruption of American journalism":