Re:Why NPR is Thriving (They’re Not Afraid of Digital Media)
by mahmud on Sunday April 26, 2009 @06:13PM
(#580512)
NPR is thriving because it manages to be the best information source in any medium. It's not the economist, but it's informative, entertaining, cultured yet very humane. The Saturday programming alone forces me out of bed early; Weekend Edition, Car Talk, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, This American Life, Studio 360, Market Place, On the Media and All Things Considered. You just can't find that anywhere.
TV and regular media have no chance. Commercial FM radio is just obnoxious and loud. I'm shocked and offended every time I get my car back from a borrowing relative and have the preset on some loud annoying jockey. American television .. best left unsubscribed to. Its best hours are 5PM to 9PM of the Sunday Fox programming; when it shows animated shows, which can now easily be watched on Hulu.
For those of you who read the Economist, I can recommend Mother Jones to balance out the right-wing nuttjobery that pervades the otherwise excellent publication.
TV and regular media have no chance. Commercial FM radio is just obnoxious and loud. I'm shocked and offended every time I get my car back from a borrowing relative and have the preset on some loud annoying jockey. American television .. best left unsubscribed to. Its best hours are 5PM to 9PM of the Sunday Fox programming; when it shows animated shows, which can now easily be watched on Hulu.
For those of you who read the Economist, I can recommend Mother Jones to balance out the right-wing nuttjobery that pervades the otherwise excellent publication.