well, those last two posts helped clarify the situation, but didn't cheer me up much..*wry look*....

when you vote next time, remember who started the trend of denying government grants to NPR a few years back and began the "underwriting" stupidity, and remember who controls many companies that are getting this relatively cheap advertising under the guise of 'supporting the arts" etc.

How far are we from those "underwriters" beginning to explicity influence what stories and issues are reported? If they can control a lot of the content of NPR, it won't be necessary to pay the likes of Armstrong Williams promote a 'certain' agenda.