Re: Media taking action in proposed sale

["Joseph Pappalardo" <joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com>]

> And those are all essential services that are not
> provided by the public sector.

Some would disagree with how 'essential' which services are.  I would
disagree at how 'essential' the Big-Dig is.  (In some peoples mind
everything outside of public defense and public safety is a luxury.)

> It is a much different
> thing to use tax money to provide what is essentially
> an entertainment vehicle with news content that some
> say favors one political philosophy.

If you are going to allow *any* sort of arts spending...you are going to
have disagreement. Or any kind of spending on public discourse and
dialogue...you will have disagreements.

Look, I by nature am conservative too.  While NPR might be a tad to the
left...I am rarely offened by NPR.  You could make your same argument for
commercial stations that use the public airwaves (a subsidy) to broadcast
Springer, Jenny Jones and the like.

> I'm a Republican, but I don't find NPR news any more
> biased than the rest of the media.  I find their story
> selection a little weird -- they see they main
> audience as liberal city folks --

As broadcast people we shoudl be surprised that NPR has found itself a
niche...a constituancy.  And that group likes what they do and will pay for
the pleasure.  Every broadcast outlet does the same.  Is this a surprise
that NPR in it's own way has found their core constituancy as well?

> The
> TV networks are biased and stupid.  NPR is at least
> intelligent.

While I have my disagreements with the way NPR could be run....I would
certainly miss them if they turned into another "12 hits in a row"
station...or ran Bill O'Reilley every day, etc.

JP