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They're mostly addle-brained socialists and hippies spouting Marxism all day.
They do it with taxpayer money. (I'm forced to pay for this sh&t I don't agree with!)
As with any other gov't program, there's no accountability.
As proof of that last point: they don't even publish any Arbitron/Nielsen ratings (which would be a total joke, like 0.0005 if they ever did). Why? Because unlike commercial TV/radio, they don't have to compete for advertising dollars! They get a free ride; an unending money spigot from your pocket and mine!
I sorely wish Congress would end Broadcast Welfare and cut the purse from CPB.
They're mostly addle-brained socialists and hippies spouting Marxism all day.
They do it with taxpayer money. (I'm forced to pay for this sh&t I don't agree with!)
As with any other gov't program, there's no accountability.
As proof of that last point: they don't even publish any Arbitron/Nielsen ratings (which would be a total joke, like 0.0005 if they ever did). Why? Because unlike commercial TV/radio, they don't have to compete for advertising dollars! They get a free ride; an unending money spigot from your pocket and mine!
I sorely wish Congress would end Broadcast Welfare and cut the purse from CPB.
Spoken like a true right winger........ Sat. radio is the answer , for both sides........ you pay , you play.......sure would miss my favorites on NPR however . Hippie , thats funny..... much too old to be one., and the only Volvo I ever owned was a truck ( many ).......I must be a Socialist in sheep's clothing... and all these years I thought I was a capitalist.
There really isn't much of a bias (all human beings have biases). It could go either-way. The only bias is the administration's hacks trying to destroy the last bastion of non-corporatist media. It's mostly listener funded. The taxes insure that there is no advertising and that it can be legitimately called public.
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Originally Posted by Yeledaf
Yes, that's true. I'm not a liberal sheep, lapping up the lies of the leftwing media and driving around in a Volvo covered with faded bumper stickers.
At least I'm not a conservative sheep, lapping up the lies of the right-wing talk show hosts and FOX news and other corporatist media and driving around in a pickup truck with "W" and conservative one-liner bumper stickers that is so big that I can barely control it.
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