[r9etb]

Imagine if their target audience had instead been “highly educated, conservative, traditional American families”. They would have nurtured five times the audience they have now. Instead, they went after an audience of America-hating, masturbating, liberal “intellectuals” like themselves. NPR screwed up, big time. So sad, too bad...

Always so easy to put the blame on others, isn't it? Never the fault of conservatives who never see the train until it hits them.

Leaving aside the whole government funding thing, it was a resource that conservatives could have developed and used to great effect: think of Buckley's old Firing Line TV show, which was excellent and widely watched -- it's no accident that the intellectual respectability of conservatism reached its pinnacle at the same time that show was on PBS. People could actually hear the arguments for conservatism for themselves, and see them tested in actual debate.

Defund it immediately.

Defund it, sure ... but what is now NPR, will stick around in some form because the 11% audience has big money and likes it enough to pony up the cash in one way or another. Lots of big foundations would keep it going.

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Defund it, sure ... but what is now NPR, will stick around in some form because the 11% audience has big money and likes it enough to pony up the cash in one way or another. Lots of big foundations would keep it going.

That's wonderful. I wish them well (relatively.)

Unlike leftists, I have zero interest in silencing opposing viewpoints. I only object to being forced to fund them.

I agree that conservatives need a more intellectual forum than talk radio and the theater on FoxNews. Mark Steyn could probably pull something together that discussed music, politics, events, etc. with a conservative bent.

The problem would be ratings, just like it is for liberals. There's no money-making market for deep thoughts on either side of the aisle.

People like sex and explosions.

[Lancey Howard]

Defund it, sure ... but what is now NPR, will stick around in some form because the 11% audience has big money and likes it enough to pony up the cash in one way or another. Lots of big foundations would keep it going.

Fine by me - - at least taxpayers would not be forced to participate in the NPR circle jerk.

Anyway, it's not a zero-sum calculation. Whatever money the liberal elitist NPR audience and those "big foundations" dump down the NPR toilet is less money they will have for dumping into Democrat campaign coffers. Win-win for decent Americans.