Just wondering...
2007-06-21 09:36:36 · 3 answers · asked by hichefheidi 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
NPR has some good shows like World Cafe that even us Cons like.
2007-06-21 10:09:00 · answer #1 · answered by MEL T 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I don't know. But let's discuss them both.
BOTH rely heavily on subsidies - Air America from investors pushing a particular political point of view, NPR from taxpayer funds - to maintain themselves. Whatever. Good for them.
Other talk radio relies much more heavily on ad revenue - the market.
Higher ad rates are a result of high ratings. High ratings means more people are listening.
Programmers are just interested in the bucks - and respond to the market. THE PEOPLE.
It's people who have rights, not political parties or ideas. "Making it equal" between parties is NOT ensuring free speech if the people are more to one side or another. It's just the opposite.
Conservatives gravitate towards talk radio. (They created the demand for it, not the other way around.) Liberals gravitate towards other media. So what?
But many in our government think they know better than the people do what they should listen to. And they go after the medium supported by the people who tune in.
No thanks.
MY ancestors fought a revolution, to end that.
While I'm at it, I don't think they fought so the courts could overreach and tie the hands of a president fighting a war by imposing rules not required for the first 220+ years of our history or declare sodomy a fundamental constitutional right but allow restrictions on my ability to place an ad criticizing candidates before an election, or so the president could refuse to defend the borders of the country they fought for, either.
This probably has nothing to do with your question, I know.
I'm spent.
2007-06-21 18:08:28 · answer #2 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
NPR doesn't make them look so good?
2007-06-21 16:49:07 · answer #3 · answered by Ringo G. 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋