Not a media narrative, RD. Listen to the countries who want(ed) to join NATO and understand why they do. They fear Russia, and with good reason as there is plenty of historical evidence that says they will be subjugated by Russia's imperialist ambitions without sufficient protection.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-105shrg46832/html/CHRG-105shrg46832.htm (probably a few thousand pages of light reading here
Admittedly I've cherry picked only a couple of bits)
I'd be more concerned with the outlets that are parroting Russian operative President Donald J. Trump's view that NATO needs to go and ask myself, who is funding this side of the story and why? There's every chane it's Russia and the intent is to create division in the US (and the rest of the west) as that has been Russia's biggest foreign policy success in the last 5 years.