[Drango]

NPR is free and they have no commercials.

Well not exactly free...If you don't pay your tax, a man with a gun will come to your house, and they will throw you in jail. Now, about those commercials they don't have...

[macrahanish #1]

NPR is "free" but you have to listen to tripe like I happened to hear
last night. The interviewer on the news asked his guest, "Is the feeling of
anxiety about economic security greater today,during the Bush administration,
than it was during the Great Depression, in 1932?"
The guest responded(of course)that people are much more anxious today. I about blew
a gasket! Then I thought about it. If people are more anxious today, wouldn't it be
due to 70 years of increasing governmental intervention in their lives, and the resultant
rise of a class of people who can't wipe their butts without
help from Uncle Sam?
Can anyone tell me why we subsidize NPR?