that feather-light touch on presenting the news in a reasonable way without getting listeners too angry (and avoiding accusations from the right that they are liberal, which will come anyway) means they never look too deep on any of the subjects, and constantly invite guest like Shilly McShillster from the American Heritage Foundation who will claim that the Trump tax cuts are a huge boost to the economy and will receive nary a pushback.
I still have it on for a few mins to catch the headlines in the morning but that's about it, they've become meaningless IMO.

this goes for PBS Newshour as well