‘NPR Voice’ Has Taken Over the Airwaves

I’m not sure, but I think that I feel had after reading this well-written piece in The New York Times. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/fashion/npr-voice-has-taken-over-the-airwaves.html?smid=fb-share
I’ve been stewing about this, working myself into a rant, about the decline in professionalism not merely at my friendly-neighborhood public-radio station, but at the Mother Ship as well. 
“WWWCD?,” they must be wondering at the ASU School of Journalism.
Me, too. I constantly complained to myself, just working up the bile to hold forth on Facebook in “Professionalize KJZZ."
Now I’m stunned to learn that it’s not an accidental slide down that slippery slope into slovenliness, but, rather, a purposeful –“deceitful?”—attempt at bridging the gap of the airwaves.
There remains, however, one tic up with which I cannot put. Its high priest is Steve Goldstein, who, morning-after-morning, continues to conduct his interviews by, in one complete burst, asking a question, making a statement, and then asking two more questions of his hapless subjects. Is this some feigned effort at being conversational?
Dunno. It certainly ain’t “What Walter Cronkite Would Do.”