MrSinatra;479419 Wrote: > > i'd have no problem with them if they just stopped getting tax money.
While you're correct about NPR/PBS being a grossly inefficient operation with way too many employees, I strongly disagree with stopping the taxpayer funding. NPR is the source of countless intelligent, well-researched and thorough stories on virtually every topic under the sun. PBS likewise is also a source for extremely high quality non-fiction programming. Nova, Frontline, The American Experience and American masters are just a few PBS shows that are consistently well-made and thought provoking. What makes these two media outlets indispensable is the fact that there are very few other media organizations that have set the bar as high. HBO and Showtime are comparable in the level of tv quality but besides the BBC, there is a vast wasteland of commercial radio that fills most of the dial. Spin that radio dial and then spin through the tv dial and try to find more than a few programs that actually inform and educate. You'll have a very easy time finding blathering idiots like Rush Limbaugh and others spewing mindless misinformation and then on the tv side you'll find a nearly endless assortment of reality programming scraping down to the lowest common denominator. a fair number of folks on this forum find the BBC to be indispensable and I would argue that here in the U.S. PBS and NPR are equally indispensable. -- exile ------------------------------------------------------------------------ exile's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70539 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezenetwork
