It's probably not a surprise that we support public radio (even though most of what I listen to is through podcast rather than over the air). Our local station is in the midst of the seasonal beg-a-thon, and a discussion arose today about the dwindling of government financing from the three states in their broadcast area. I think I remember that it's completely stopped in two of the states, and may be eliminated in the third.
It can't come soon enough, as far as I'm concerned. If government funding for public radio stops, then public radio can start telling the truth about government. If there had been no government funding in the first years of this century, public broadcasters might have been able to tell the truth about torture, for example, or have been able to tell a story about one party without some misguided attempt at fairness dragging in the other.
Our household contribution to public radio will double the day I hear that all government funding has either stopped... or, even better, been refused, by public broadcasters.
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