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The Radio weblog of Hal Rager

Thursday, July 11, 2002

Paying for Public Radio NPR: The addiction. "National Public Radio is, for many, a valued source of news, commentary, and exposure to our culture. NPR derives its funding in a variety of ways, primarily supported by its listeners. With the current economic situation, as well as painful cutbacks in funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities, NPR's future is uncertain. How do the members of our community feel about this? Many of us gladly support other valued venues of information online, but do you do your part for NPR?" [kuro5hin.org] I don't know about anyone else, but I get a great deal from NPR, and American Public Radio (PHC) for that matter, that I don't seem to be able to get anywhere else. They are far from perfect, but there are not many options out there. We don't tithe, but our support is pretty generous. IMO, of course. 9:35:02 PM    comment   trackback []

"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?" Philip G. Hamerton. [Quotes of the Day] 9:24:32 PM    comment   trackback []

"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own." Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. [Quotes of the Day] no comment 9:22:11 PM    comment   trackback []

"This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man." William Shakespeare. [Motivational Quotes of the Day] 9:17:17 PM    comment   trackback []