Re: Media taking action in proposed sale

[Dan Billings <billingsdan@yahoo.com>]

--- Joseph Pappalardo
<joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com> wrote:

>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.

Agreed.  That's why we should leave arts funding and
spending on public discourse to the private sector.  

> As broadcast people we should be surprised that
NPR
> has found itself a
> niche...a constituency.  And that group likes
what
> they do and will pay for
> the pleasure.

If they want it: let them pay for it!  Does anyone
have any doubt that the median income of NPR listeners
is higher than the median income in the country?  I'm
sure that's what they tell their underwriters.  SO we
are taxing working class people to provide high brow
entertainment to people who could afford to pay for
the service.  Take from the poor and give to the rich.
  
 
> 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.

Do you really think they would disappear if the public
subsidy was eliminated?

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine

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