NPR

There was an emergency session of the House of Representatives today to deal with the looming crisis of funding for NPR. They voted to kill funding.

With all the problems in this country – jobs, the economy, global warming, funding tsunami warning centers, jobs, health care, nuclear energy issues, jobs – and they hold an emergency hearing about NPR?

Really? That’s what they think is important?

Someone explain to me how that creates jobs.

Most people think NPR is liberal. In my experience it's barely centrist. But it is public. The thing is, even if federal funding is cut, it won’t really hurt NPR very much. It will, however, hurt many small market radio stations. Why would that be OK? I’m sure those parts of the country will still get plenty of AM radio. I guess that makes everything alright.

Lately the people at NPR have been pretty stupid. No, not what they said on tape, that was edited into fiction used to attack public radio. They were stupid because they rolled over when that happened. It was a lame attack. It was a tape edited into a series of lies, and they still couldn’t defend themselves.

I don’t think that this will kill NPR, but it’s like public schools: NPR is a good thing to have, it isn’t great and it could be improved, but if you get rid of it you can’t fix it. This is just an attack against something the people who run the House don’t like – though I doubt they could really explain why.