—Rural NPR stations might go under without fed subsidies? There are other ways to get NPR programming—off the comp. Via satellite radio, etc. And if people really want it, PAY for it...VOLUNTARILY. But not through a mandatory tax.
—I saw allow the FCC to let them go commercial. What’s wrong with Car Talk, brought to you by Sears Auto Centers? Some of their donorships sound like ads as it is.
—Air America flopped because libs who wanted to hear it could get their views via NPR...on 50,000 watt FM blowtorches (or
more: Boston’s WGBH is 100,000 watts!) without commercial interruption. Why would people want to hear the same views on a scratchy AM station? And they could laugh at the fact that conservatives through tax money were subsidizing lib leaning shows. Stale Air With Terri Gross Me Out (credit:
Laura Ingraham)
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