Kat, I used to spend some of my time listening to my local NPR station but gave it up. True, they take time to develop their stories, but they are much too dependent upon corporate financing to make much more noise about US sponsorship of the scum of the earth for the sake of providing businesses with cheap labor and resources than do the "commercial media." Give me Pacifica stations anytime--if they can be rescued from the assaults of their national board of directors. KPFA gets 95% of my radio listening time (in addition to its news and public affairs broadcasts, it has the best music: Sundays feature seven solid hours of roots music, the last hour of which is "Loafer's Glory--the Hobo Jungle of the Mind"--Utah Phillips' great misture of music, politics, humor, reminiscences, etc. Saturday is soul with Johnny Otis, blues, and jazz--and there's lots of great world music throughout the week.

--seed