Posted on 09/11/2025 11:07:46 PM PDT by know.your.why
Larisa Thomason has been listening to Huntsville public radio station WLRH for almost 50 years. Now, she’s threatening to change the dial.
“My daughter calls WLRH the soundtrack for her childhood,” Thomason said. “It was always on.”
Thomason started listening to WLRH in the 1970s to learn more about politics and she became a dues-paying member in the 1980s.
She said she may start supporting a different public radio station after she heard that WLRH is dropping its National Public Radio (NPR) programming due to federal funding cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
WLRH is a branch of Alabama Public Television, which lost $2.8 million in those cuts.
According to Alabama Public Television, NPR programming costs $192,000 to air on WLRH.
WLRH General Manager Erich Bruckner said the change was purely a financial decision, however, APT leaders blame “bias problems” at NPR, as well as PBS, for the federal funding cuts.
“It reminds me of Stephen Colbert famously saying that ‘reality has a well-known liberal bias,’ because public radio, they interview all kinds of people from all political parties,” Thomason said. “Artists, leaders, national, international leaders. There are Republicans on there all the time, so I don’t understand the problem.”
“The quality of the product (NPR) is really good,” Bruckner said. “But, you know, we’re looking at this from a long-term perspective of what is going to be the healthiest thing for the radio station long term.”
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"public radio, they interview all kinds of people from all political parties,” Thomason said. “Artists, leaders, national, international leaders. There are Republicans on there all the time"
As a kid growing up in northern Ala in mid-1970s...I probably listened to 2 or 3 hours per week of NPR (the early days)...lot of jazz, literature....not much on news.
At some point between 2005 and 2010...I generally quit NPR entirely. One got the feeling of ‘lectures’ or propaganda.
The only way I can see a resolution or return to funding...zero news....going back to jazz, classical and folk-music, with literature/poetry in the mix.
Welcome to the 21st Century, Larisa.
The only show I liked on NPR was car talk. People would call in and make troubling car sounds and the guy would diagnose the problem. That was good.
I used to listen to NPR to know how the enemy thinks. But at some point, it seemed like every single story had a sodomite “LGBT” angle to it. They could be talking about a far off galaxy and how sodomites are being descriminated against there. That relentless sodomy cured me from ever lsitening again.
“reality has a well-known liberal bias”.
This is the level of delusion we’re dealing with, folks.
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When all of your friends and coworkers are of the same hive mindset, your "reality" is so skewered you probably would believe two plus two equals five
Even public broadcasting has to be mindful of their local markets. It’s conservative Alabama so they have to pull their liberal horns in a bit and provide a little balance to their programming but will still have a liberal bias. Other local markets, they can get away with their all out liberal bias in presentation.
<>I used to listen to NPR to know how the enemy thinks.<>
Ditto.
After decades of putting up with their Leftist spin, I stopped listening late in the 2020 election cycle when NPR wouldn’t acknowledge even the existence of the Hunter laptop scandal.
Lol .
This brainwashed commie just outed how her brain was destroyed and advocates for it to continue .
Sure thing .
I listened to stories of Lake Wobegone until I found out that the story teller was Chairman Mao, cleaned up a little for radio.
Fixed.
I did too when I wanted to hear non-stop mockery of Christians and middle-America.
I liked that too, along with Garrison Keillor on Sunday at noon I think.
I know it's fiction ... but that's what "they" said about Walter White's product.
Not just bias. Outright - pee on your pants and tell you it's raining - lies which they pushed over the past ten years. Lies that they insisted were true, and truth that they dismissed as "debunked" or "misinformation".
I hate them. With a white hot heat. Cutting off their taxpayer funding was long overdue.
If NPR is her main politics source, she’ll become a lot smarter very soon after it stops....
I loved “Car Talk” — funny, interesting and educational. It could not have been expensive to produce. NPR needs to do more work like this. Maybe a similar gardening show or other hobby. WJR runs a weekend show with an appliance repairman, and I learned a ton about home appliance repair from the guy.
PBS will do fine once they cut out some of the fat. “All Things Considered”, their news show, probably has a staff of 100+ and it would do just fine with 20.
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