[Dixielandjazz] [Fwd: Crumbs From The NPR Table]

[Ron L'Herault]

I thank my lucky stars for public broadcasting.  It is where I hear Ray
Smith's Jazz Decades, Bob Bamberger's Hot Jazz Saturday night and Rich
Conaty's Big Broadcast. On TV, it is where I first saw and heard Max
Morath and discovered the richness of New Orleans Jazz via a program
whose name I can't even remember but I remember seeing Alvin Alcorn and
Sweet Emma, Kit Butler, George Guesnon, and many others.   It is where I
got to see great silent movies with Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin,
just to name a couple.  Of course it should be there.  Just because some
people choose not to view it or are so brainwashed that they can't move
from commercial TV/Radio does not mean that public TV should not be
publicly funded.  The government funds lots of medical research and
research in other fields that I probably will never need to use but that
doesn't mean it shouldn't get funded.

Ron L

-----Original Message-----
From: dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com
[mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com] On Behalf Of Bill Horton
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 7:53 PM
To: Fr M J (Mike) Logsdon; dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] [Fwd: Crumbs From The NPR Table]

Mike Logsdon writes (or quotes?), re NPR:

  There is a diversity of opinions, a diversity of
> talents and interests, and several million paying customers to
entertain
> (yes, that's what I said, entertain) in the listenership of National
> Public Radio.

The beefs about NPR are mainly two:
(1)  It has a definite leftward political slant; and
(2)  With thousands of self-supporting radio stations in this country,
why
should taxpayers pay for NPR?

Nothing in the Constitution authorizes such expenditure (unless some
Justice
"finds", hiding in a penumbra, some authority for it, as 5 did with "the
right to privacy.")  There's no problem with listeners sending in
contributions to support NPR, but taking tax money from multi-millions
who
never listen seems sort of like stealing their money, doesn't it?

Bill Horton



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