That has been done. If you listen to public radio or watch public TV, you will find that big city outlets don’t get much funding from CPB. Most of the public dollars are distributed to rural outlets where there is little, if anything, else. The public stations are the emergency alert system. Without them, how will many rural locations know if a flood or tornado is coming? The public radio station I listen to admits in fund raising ads that 6% of their budget is funded by CPB. Similarly, public stations that produce programs, like WBUR and WETA, get little money since they get paid for their programming.
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Their contribution to rural areas and emergency broadcast is highly exaggerated. I’ve traveled the whole state of Minnesota, most of South Dakota, and a good portion of Iowa. There are small local am stations all over th3 place. With local broadcast. The one recent example in Texas was doing fundraising while the flooding was going on. Reported on it maybe a day later. Exact details may vary but the jist was public radio was worthless as an emergency broadcast. And often any locals stations are just broadcasting what is on the larger station so no real local information.
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Carson used to do his spatula city spoofs with take fork in the road and all roads lead there. Never knew it was a real outfit.
Limbaugh used Spatula City to launder Heritage Foundation money. $35million/year.
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And then you get the head mechanic telling you theres no problem, this car has the best engine and bestest most beautiful fenders. We habe the brst engines snd the best fenders.
I think all of us can agree on one thing on here and that is the head mechanic is the problem but if the democrats would have run a decent candidate we wouldn’t be in this mess.
Another male, I suppose?
Well, so much for keeping politics out of this…
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Bernie Sanders would have been my top pick, Tulsi Gabbard, Mayor Pete, the list goes on.
Its getting too serious to continue down the Primrose Path pretending everything is ok when everything is actually crumbling apart.
If we continue another 3 years there will be nothing left for the poor people and tge middle class will cease to exist.
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Two women lost Presidential elections. Many more failed to make the cut, in the primary rounds of both major parties.
That speaks to only one thing.
I didn’t get a honeymoon until two years later, but when I did it was in New Orleans not the Soviet Union. I’ve also been to south bend a couple times. Never been to to China.
At least daves I witheld all names and parties.
And it’s not a political statement that the country is not ready for a woman leader. It’s a fact, like grass is green and sky is blue.
Hi all,
This is Managing Editor Julie here.
Just a heads up, Car Talk is not on the chopping block. Nor will it be.
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When a business hires someone, that person should be the most qualified for the job, that person should never be hired based on what sex they are… Another wards, you should be hired based on merit, not gender no matter the job…
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Companies change and pivot these days, if they want to stay relevant.
Car Talk is not in that studio and has not been for a while.
But the company is alive and well.
All you need to do is google our podcast, check the website, see our car reviews, check our socials, read our nationally syndicated Dear Car Talk series in the paper every week, or head on over to Car Donations. Your choice.
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@jtsanders Correct! Well done.
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And just how many daily papers is that in. Our local paper dropped the column years ago.
@VOLVO-V70 187 publications currently. I should know. I’m the one that gets them during submission and edits them before they go on our homepage.
What each paper decides to run is up to their Editorial team and their strategic goals.
If you’d like to still read the Dear Car Talk column, you can go to our homepage where they are published every week for those who like to read it online.
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