[cowtown]

I know this thread will probably turn into an R vs. D battle (which thread doesn't these days?), but I'm going to ask anyway, and I'm curious if responses break down on party lines:

I'm a right-of-center guy, and I think National Public Radio news and commentators are quite obviously left-biased . So I get some news from them, and some from the WSJ, etc. I think that if NPR were dissolved today, the on-air talent would probably go one of two ways - the personnel who are talented would land on their feet in the commercial stations. Some others would disappear without subsidization from taxpayers. I guess I'm implying here that some of the talen't couldn't make it in the real world.

The thing is, there are a few things about NPR that I really like, even though I don't agree with their editorial slant. I like "Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me," because it's political entertainment with no commercials and is very, very funny. I also like "Car Talk."

If these shows were moved to commercial stations, I think they would be changed: sped up, maybe there'd be a little hip-hop beat in the background, and naturally there would be many ad interruptions. I'm out of the demographic that appreciates these things on commercial radio.

Just because of these two shows, I'm an NPR contributor, even though I'm annoyed by a lot of what NPR does.

What do you think of NPR?