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Do you listen to public radio?
beaverboard:
I listen to WFPK, listener supported radio, out of Louisville. They play "adult contemporary" music. They play a wide mix of music that you won't here on any other radio station, anything form rock to country to the occasional foriegn music. All in all a really cool radio station if you don't like to listen to the same 100 songs that they play on comercial radio. Plus no commercials.
Antibubba:
Yep. I hear music I otherwise wouldn't stumble across in a thousand years. I also like NPR's coverage of Supreme Court cases-it's almost like a baseball play-by-play.
stevelyn:
Not me. Not interested in National Public Socialist Radio.
I'm an AM talk and headbanger guy.
MillCreek:
98% of the time that the radio is on in the car, it is on either KUOW or KPLU, the two NPR stations in the Seattle area. During the week, I listen to 'Morning edition' and 'All things considered', on the weekend, I listen to 'Car Talk', 'A Prairie Home Companion' and 'Whadya Know'.
Perd Hapley:
I heard Morning Edition and All Things Considered almost every day when I was growing up, but now I can't stomach very much NPR except for the weekend shows. Though ideally one should take in information from various points of view, the "enlightened" "progressives" on NPR are not even capable of presenting the news in an informative and balanced fashion, as they don't understand the world on which they are reporting. How can I trust them to tell me the truth, when they believe so many lies? How many lies might I unwittingly accept? Even if I could bear a diet of lies and incoherence, I am still not able to bear the thought of their propaganda being represented, and believed, as truth. It is like reading a thread on, say, DU, in which ignorant, illogical and/or dishonest people are distorting the facts about something one fervently believes in, yet without being able to respond. I get so mad I can't even turn off the radio fast enough, due to a loss of fine motor skills. Destroyed a nice little radio, one time, when I ended up throwing it on the ground and stomping on it, just trying to shut it off.
I once read an article in a leftist, media "watch-dog" magazine, which showed how NPR is actually much more fair and balanced than other news outlets. Yet all one need do is listen to the weekend shows like Car Guys and Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Don't even get me started on PRI's weekend shows. Anyway, they may have a few conservatives on WWDTM, but the jokes are all aimed at a left-wing audience, and they even poke fun at the leftist bent of their listeners, from time to time. They know good and well they're on the left, and they have begun to acknowledge it just like the rest of the press has. Just today, they were making jokes about Log Cabin Republicans "beating themselves up in parking lots" and "having large, beautiful closets" in their homes. Let us leave aside the question of how one participates in a known homosexual group like the LCR while also being in the closet, and move on the Car Guys. Just listen to a few shows, and you're gauranteed to hear someone apologizing for driving an SUV.
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