tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post2464637751266243435..comments2024-02-05T03:41:13.688+01:00Comments on Mikeb302000: An interesting post on NPRAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09806175370305006933noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-50711894399377900532012-01-23T04:22:39.399+01:002012-01-23T04:22:39.399+01:00Second try:
I've listened to NPR for over thr...Second try:<br /><br />I've listened to NPR for over three decades now. My impression of their news programs is that they aim at an educated audience. They mostly question whoever is in power at the time. They've had their problems, but so has the BBC.<br /><br />These days, our public radio stations play the BBC during the wee hours, and I can listen on-line, but I surely do miss my Hammerlund shortwave. I spent many a late hour listening to the BBC and others, coming in amongst the cracks and pops of the ionosphere.Greg Camphttp://gregorycamp.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-43200513258153299182012-01-21T14:26:27.053+01:002012-01-21T14:26:27.053+01:00They have gotten progressively worse.
Not that th...They have gotten progressively worse.<br /><br />Not that the BBC can be much better. I listened to Radio Nederland for most of the early 2000s.Laci The Doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07138644349857941157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-85323510476814419602012-01-21T14:01:14.413+01:002012-01-21T14:01:14.413+01:00I still listen to NPR for the "news", su...I still listen to NPR for the "news", such as it is, and for a number of programs that I've enjoyed for many years ("Car Talk", "Prairire Home Companion", "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me", among others). I gave up on the "talk shows" a long time ago. During the first term of Bushjugend the director of NPR was replaced with a party hack and they've never recovered. <br /><br />The congressional reduction of their budgets, btw, is done deliberately. By reducing (or, better yet, eliminating) their gummint funding, the reichwingers nudge NPR and PBS into the all too welcoming arms of their "corporate partners". <br /><br />The latest assault on the web is part and parcel of a strategy to limit the dissemination of information across that platform. That it would put billions into the pockets of the already obscenely wealthy 1% is a bonus.democommiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08714733977927594559noreply@blogger.com