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The smarmy, condescending, sing-songy patter-blather....it drives me crazy.
All the time wasted on playing quality music reduces the available time to spend spreading their disinformation, and propagandizing the non-thinking, left leaning, pseudo-elite.
All the time wasted on playing quality music reduces the available time to spend spreading their disinformation, and propagandizing the non-thinking, left leaning, pseudo-elite.
Actually, my bet is that the NPR stuff isn't more popular. It's probably less. But the drooling lefties contribute more money than the dentist's office that plays public broadcasting classical music.
Okay, I gotta work on that itchy, trigger finger that makes me click on POST twice.
Sorry :-(
"If PBS doesn't do it, who will?"
how about:
The Internet
Fox News Channel
C-SPAN
C-SPAN2
C-SPAN3
History Channel
A&E
National Geographic Channel
Discovery Channel
The Learning Channel
House&Garden TV
CNN
CNN Headline News
CNBC
MSNBC
CNNfn
Disney Channel
Bravo
Spike
Wings
HBO
Showtime
Starz
IFC
AMC
Turner Classic Movies
Nickelodeon
USA Network
Cartoon Channel
Comedy Central
Sci-Fi Channel
Lifetime
ABC Family
TechTV
ESPN
ESPN2
Fox SportsNet
the lamestream See-B.S., ABS, NBS
crummy local stations
even crap like MTV and VH1
and many more . . . .
I can't stand NPR, but I've loved having my choice of three (three!) classical music stations in DC. And WETA-FM had one jewel I've been listening to almost every Saturday night for 15 years: Traditions, a showcase for bluegrass, folk and ethnic music, humor, and historic recordings. I'll miss it. What else shall I listen to on Saturday nights? sigh. . .
D.C.'s two mixes of news fare
| Duplicated | Produced by station |
| Monday-Friday | WAMU | WETA's new sked |
| 5 a.m. | Morning Edition (NPR) | World Update (BBC) |
| 6 a.m. | Morning Edition (NPR) | |
| 9 a.m. | Newshour (BBC) | |
| 10 a.m. | Diane Rehm Show | World Briefing (BBC) |
| 11 a.m. | News & Notes with Ed Gordon (NPR) | |
| Noon | Kojo Nnamdi Show | Day to Day (NPR) |
| 1 p.m. | Metro Connection | Global Report (BBC) |
| 2 p.m. | Talk of the Nation (NPR) | Odyssey (WBEZ) |
| 3 p.m. | The World (PRI/BBC/WGBH) | Fresh Air with Terri Gross (NPR/WHYY) |
| 4 p.m. | All Things Considered (NPR) | All Things Considered (NPR) |
| 6 p.m. | Marketplace (APM) | ATC continues |
| 6:30 p.m. | ATC rebroadcast | Marketplace (APM) |
| 7 p.m. | ATC rebroadcast continues | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer |
| 8 p.m. | Kojo Nnamdi Show rebroadcast | The World (PRI/BBC/WGBH) |
| 9 p.m. | Diane Rehm Show rebroadcast | News & Notes with Ed Gordon (NPR) rebroadcast |
| 10 p.m. | To the Point with Warren Olney (PRI/KCRW) | Day to Day (NPR) rebroadcast |
| 11 p.m. | As It Happens (CBC) | Outlook (BBC) |
| Midnight |
Monday 12: With Good Reason (Virginia universities) plus at 12:30: Soundprint (PRI) Tuesday-Saturday: The World Today (BBC) |
BBC news through 5 a.m. |
| 1 a.m. | Monday: Selected Shorts (PRI/WNYC), Tuesday-Saturday: The World Today (BBC) | BBC continues |
| 2 a.m. | News & Notes with Ed Gordon (NPR) | BBC continues |
| 3 a.m. | Fresh Air | BBC continues |
| 4 a.m. | BBC programming through 5 a.m. | BBC continues |
I wouldn' listen to hours and hours and hours of elevator music either.
This is really funny! Maybe they will plug in Rush Limbaugh!
Yeah that's the only way All FrankinStupid and Jennine GaackBraffalot can get on the radio.
Who doesn't like Car Talk? Commercial radio, especially during drive time, sux big time. The adds drive me crazy. Of course I have not heard an add on commercial radio in years due to the radio control buttons on the steering wheel of my car and the remote at home, but I know they are there.
And just when I was beginning to appreciate classical music. Good thing they still have classical formats on public radio in my area of the woods. I think I'll donate.
Satellite radio (Sirius and XMSR) have changed that, for those willing to pay for the equipment and subscriptions, so i suspect that NPR has begun to read the handwriting on the wall. Problem is, the hinterlands aren't demanding left-wing cant, and the metro areas already have a surfeit of it.
This is yet another reason to question the necessity of government radio in the United States. Privatize it, or simply pull the plug. The free market is providing everything listeners could reasonably require.
How to choose, how to choose...
There was a time when NPR performed a public service, playing classical music and reporting news in depth. That has basically come to an end.
NPR in Vermont gave up on almost all classical music years ago, and plays jazz instead. I'm told that NPR in New York dropped classical music to follow the 9/11 story and never restored it.
We have a commercial station in Stowe/Burlington that plays classical music, and evidently makes money with it. I'm inclined to agree that it's not the audiences who tired of classical music but the political maniacs who run NPR, and the rich leftists on whom they now rely for funding.
Guess we're lucky here in Central Illinois. From 7:00 pm Fridays to 8:00 pm Sunday (with the exception of a few hours of the usual NPR BS Saturday and Sunday before noon), WGLT plays some kick ass Blues. I called them up during the last pledge drive and told 'em I'd actually contribute if they dropped the NPR BS and went full time with the Blues.
Listen live at http://www.wglt.org/ , left column.
Did you see this? At least you on the east coast have a smattering of such stations. They're almost gone out here on the left coast.
stop government funding of npr