Nothing for non-Leftists to listen to on National Peoples’ Radio since Car Talk went off the air in 2012. Having tax supported radio and television is an anachronism we do not need. Have Lovey and Thurston pay for the whole thing.
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- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
It wasn’t enough. Go for 100%.
“Limited scientific evidence of physical advantage.” So, “essentially all of the available evidence proves X” is now “limited scientific evidence”, because we don’t like the answer. Got it.
JFK is right, shut the whole thing down. These guys make the BBC look honest.
Thursten and Lovely were Republican. There was a joke about on one of the episodes.
How times have changed.
I was a regular listener up to 2003, generally to their local music programs and feature programs. Then the station I favored changed their broadcast range and I could hardly find it anymore. (I also couldn’t tolerate Daniel Schorr). They commonly had interesting story selections in re their news programming, but it hit you they framed every story in a predictable way.
I doubt they ever attempted to produce a variegated and impartial news staff. The company president for eight years was George McGovern’s quondam campaign manager (forced out in 1983 for financial mismanagement). Fred Barnes pointed out in 1987 that they were using American political pilgrims as stringers in Nicaragua, and it showed in their coverage.
The other thing, and this was a problem from the beginning, was the funding arrangement, which (per Jonah Goldberg, who worked on PBS projects) was set up to not be transparent. We have the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, the National Library of Medicine, the National Agricultural Library, and the National Archives. That’s ample federal funding for culture. All states have a public college and university network and commonly have state museums and libraries. Any public funding for philanthropic corporations trading in culture ought to be coming from county governments if it’s coming from anywhere.
Can’t read Jack’s words on first tweet.
Our local university classical station merged with NPR. I have ceased my annual contributions.
How times have changed.
For people of Thurston and Lovey’s cohort, being a Republican meant you (1) were a northerner, upland Southerner, or northern transplant, and (2) you weren’t in an occupation where union membership was common, and (3) you weren’t a prospect for the relief rolls.
The last time I listened to NPR was something like 10 years ago. It was back when the LCWR was being investigated by the Vatican for putting liberal feminism above God (as many of them quite obviously were.)
There was some roundtable discussion on NPR about it. One of the hosts said that the nuns were only being investigated because the Vatican was insulted by how much they were helping the poor. Another chimed in and said that it’s amazing that the Vatican has the resources to do that, when they never once investigated allegations of sexual abuse against priests. The others all agreed that indeed the Vatican would never investigate priests, but hated nuns for being helpful.
Turned it off then and never looked back.