I, thank the stars, am just the opposite. After surviving grad school and then beginning a career in biomedicine ca 1980, I funded 1/365 of the annual budget of MN Public Radio. Year after year.
I was one of those folks they bragged about - sitting in the driveway listening on the car radio until the sequence ended, so I didn’t miss anything. I liked the coverage of literature, didn’t have to fire up the SW to listen to BBC, and the local news stories were always in depth, lacking the stuff we would now term as ‘click bait’.
As time passed, I recognized that their slant no longer aligned with mine. I am/was a classical libertarian/conservative - ex army officer/farmer/taconite miner.
Took them three years of begging letters to understand that I wasn’t going to contribute another penny.
Love your self description - classic libertarian/conservative. Me, too.
In the olden days, I listened to classical music and to literature. Then I discovered Rush Limbaugh and switched to talk radio. By the time I was hearing NPR, it was with the liberal slant already heavily there. Just as I gave up so many well-loved TV shows for their slant, I couldn’t deal with the NPR today.
The taconite mining sounded fascinating. My grandfather was a rare metals miner in Colorado, doing a lot of prospecting from Alaska down to Central America. He was in a gunfight at the bottom of the Independence silver mine in Victor CO, 1902.