De-fund it now

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags

I would like to see them in a position where they accepted no money from the government; government funded media is never a good thing, too much political pressure and too much opportunity for the appearance of impropriety.

There was a compelling reason to fund "non-idiotic" media at one point in history, but we now have plenty of other sources of information and can completely ignore broadcast TV and radio. I wouldn't mind seeing NPR completely convert to internet radio, they could probably reach the vast majority of listeners without having to deal with either federal funding or federal regulation. Leave the broadcast airwaves to the clowns who have found their audience there.