An Open Letter to NPR
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[ An Open Letter to NPR ]
Your normally atrocious version of NPR has become even more atrocious with your shameless spring fund-drive. I know the Bush Administration keeps trying to cut funding for public radio, but it has also been widely reported that you are running a surplus. Therefore, the whore-mongering needs to stop.
In LA, the stations down there do local news all through the day. You people do mutherfuckin' daytime jazz. If I wanted to listen to goddamn jazz, I would buy a CD. Surprisingly, news is not available on CD, which is why I turn to NPR in the first place.
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windmillw says:
3 months ago
Dear Notecarder,
I live in Southern California and I'm wondering if you've listened to NPR on 89.3 (kpcc.org). I can't live without the station. I have a small business that I work on from home and from early in the morning to late afternoon I listen to the interviews given by some of the best interviewers I've ever heard - Larry Mantle- Pat Morrison - Teri Gross. It's like getting a college education all over again. Last week, for example, there was an excellent piece on a young woman, about your age, who single-handedly works on global warming issues. There were interviews on Iran and Iraq - the Shiite and Sunni perspective - the military perspective-the hearings on Capital Hill. There were interviews about the mortgage crisis on both sides of the issues - amazingly even-handed presentations. (If you are near the mountains, you might not get 89.3, but you can do live streaming at kpcc.org. or download podcasts.)
Another station I listen to which you might like is out of Santa Barbara - KPFK (90.7 FM). (Of course, my husband says I like this station because I'm a little left of Marx!) Not true- but you get the idea. Amy Goodman is a phenomenal interviewer along with Sonali Kolhatkar. In fact, Amy Goodman will be speaking at 3300 Wilshire Blvd. Saturday, April 26 to promote her book "Standing Up to the Madness - Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times." (www.kpfk.org).
Like you, I don't see much sense in jazz radio. But to each, his own. However, the world is at a critical phase and to me, being informed without buying into the hyperbole, exaggeration, and twists that the Rush Limbuaghs and other shock jocks put on issues is "a moral imperative".
I have no connection to the two stations I mentioned or to public radio in general, other than being an appreciative and admiring listener. To me, public radio is the last bastion of a free society. Its programs are directed, motivated, and sponsored by its listening audience, not by advertisers who essentially are taking your money, but in a way you can't direct.
You sound like the kind of guy who is looking for the kind of information presented on the stations I mentioned. You just happened onto the jazz station of public radio, but there's so much more. I have a few hubs on this site, so let me know if you try these out. (I'm thinking you'd love kpfk the best. Try it in the morning.)
Cheers, Billie