Reply #19: I wouldn't know EXACTLY, but I'd know approximately what programs

[Ron Green]

should air, and so would quite a few thoughtful people who care about citizenship over mindless consumption. Public Radio used to do a pretty good job of airing reasonable discourse in every market in the nation, but look at it now: bought and paid for by Wal*Mart and Archer Daniels Midland. Public TV, at least in my market, is being taken over by baby-boomer nostalgia (in addition to the advertisers) in its desperate search for cash.

Without public money the message is all about market share, and what sells is what appeals to our baser nature.