Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 16, 2011

If I only had a nickel for every time someone has suggested the same thing to me…. :)

Holden, I hereby grant you permission to use the part of public radio my taxes pay for. I don’t want it.

I can’t stand the Left Wing bias thoughts of NPR – a waste of my tax dollars.

And we all know that, “Reality has a well-known liberal bias.” – Stephen Colbert

@8ball and Cathy Dresser: couldn’t agree more!

So, do you listen to it just to think about how much you don’t want to listen to it?

That’s weird, I stopped listening to NPR because of the right-wing bias. There were news reports that even they had trouble spinning to make the previous administration look good.

^ Spinning is right down my alley.

I like radio with talking voices that I don’t have to pay for by listening to lies about sales.

I like public radio for the same reason I like EVEN the current US government…bought, paid-for, crooked, and yet…stockholm syndrome. It’s BETTER by far and more civilized in presentation than maybe Syria. Sponsor me, I’ll go check. Or just wait: when the cookie jar gets full enough of change, I’ll go.

And report. Love it or leave. I love it. But I’m filling the cookie jar.

Wow I have always enjoyed the comments by the Frazz readers and am really surprised at the comments here today. I thought we shared a lot of the same ideas. I guess not.

NPR is a part of PBS (Petroleum Broadcasting System, a notoriously liberal source of most of its revenue). If you want to hear government radio, get a short wave receiver and listen to BBC, Radio Nederland, Deutche Welle, or Radio Canada International. Or do the same if you want to know what is going on in the world.

A comment on the comments: first, you have point to at least one instance of bias on NPR. Just one. Go ahead. This is what I say to all those who try to slam public radio. No one’s come up with an example yet.

It’s thoughtful to listen to Public Radio on earbuds so that the rest of us don’t have to listen unless we want to.

Why do you consider it to be stupid to listen to public radio?

Who pays for your viewpoint?

So you object to your taxes being used for NPR; you’re okay then with taxes being used to bail out mismanaged corporations (which then go to give raises to incompetent CEOs)? You’re okay with subsidizing the rich to make them richer? You’re okay with paying for wars for oil investors? Oh yes, and who forces you to listen to public radio? Personally, I consider it worth my pledge money not to have to listen to 10 minutes of ads for every 7 minutes of music. One of my favorite stations receives no subsidies from the government or any financial institution or university; they are 100% listener supported, and they have the most diverse playlist of any station I have ever heard (with the possible exception of WFMU, which, being a west coaster, I can only listen to online).