Reply To: Should federal funding for NPR be ended?

I should add that I am NOT a fan of NPR at all. It has few true on-air employees; most are stringers paid by the piece. Not exactly a Progressive way to run an organization — Wal-Mart, for all its sins, does far better. And the pejorative term “National Palestine Radio” has a basis in fact. Years ago a program director at a non-NPR public station complained to me that their commentaries are almost all from Left to Extreme Left. By comparison, PBS (television) from its early days had conservative commenters like Willam Buckley and Louis Rukeyser. The level of discourse on those two programs was far superior to the diatribes we now see and hear. Hopefully the new management at NPR will provide a new direction.