KUT is dead to me...
Okay, at least for the next week or so.
For those of you not reading this in Austin, KUT is our local public radio station.
My morning listening routine usually consists of listening to Jason and Deb on 101X as Michelle and I get ready. In fact we have both developed an unhealthy addiction to that morning show, but that's another post.
Anyway, on my way to work in the car, I usually switch between 101X and KUT so that I can get the news of the day from NPR. Unfortunately, this week is KUT's annual give-us-some-fucking-money-cause-the-fucking-republicans-took-it-all-away drive.
Which means I can't listen to KUT this week. I mean, I pay my taxes, I vote for the people who fund public radio and television, and I even manned the phone banks once for the PBS station in College Station. I know this sounds really selfish of me, but I've already PAID for NPR. Through my taxes.
They've started this line of begging where they say, "Oh, don't you love the in depth reporting we do, like when we spent 600 straight hours telling you about every last person who lost their house in Katrina? If so, then you need to pay us for that!"
No, no I don't. Because it's PUBLIC FUCKING RADIO!! That's the whole point. I don't have to pay for it. If I paid for it, it would be Sirius. Or it would be cable. Besides, even if I did give you fifty bucks, it would be a drop in the bucket next to the corporate donations you already get, so that those corporations can get more write-offs. And I'd still have to listen to the longer and longer sponsor ID cuts in between stories. I know that ArcherDanielsMidland is the supermarket to the world, or what have you. I also notice that I haven't heard any investigative reports about how they are raping the environment lately. Curious, no?
So, instead of getting to listen to actual news when I switch over from 101X because they're playing the same Foo Fighter's song for the hundredth time in a row, or because I don't want to listen to that stupid titty-bar commercial again, I am forced to listen to the local KUT voice talent saying how much they enjoyed bringing you a thirty-minute retrospective on local washboard players.
So, please, for the love of gods, vote for people who will fund NPR and PBS at higher levels. So that I can listen to that cranky sports guys on Wednesday without hearing him beg for money.
TTFN,
MST
For those of you not reading this in Austin, KUT is our local public radio station.
My morning listening routine usually consists of listening to Jason and Deb on 101X as Michelle and I get ready. In fact we have both developed an unhealthy addiction to that morning show, but that's another post.
Anyway, on my way to work in the car, I usually switch between 101X and KUT so that I can get the news of the day from NPR. Unfortunately, this week is KUT's annual give-us-some-fucking-money-cause-the-fucking-republicans-took-it-all-away drive.
Which means I can't listen to KUT this week. I mean, I pay my taxes, I vote for the people who fund public radio and television, and I even manned the phone banks once for the PBS station in College Station. I know this sounds really selfish of me, but I've already PAID for NPR. Through my taxes.
They've started this line of begging where they say, "Oh, don't you love the in depth reporting we do, like when we spent 600 straight hours telling you about every last person who lost their house in Katrina? If so, then you need to pay us for that!"
No, no I don't. Because it's PUBLIC FUCKING RADIO!! That's the whole point. I don't have to pay for it. If I paid for it, it would be Sirius. Or it would be cable. Besides, even if I did give you fifty bucks, it would be a drop in the bucket next to the corporate donations you already get, so that those corporations can get more write-offs. And I'd still have to listen to the longer and longer sponsor ID cuts in between stories. I know that ArcherDanielsMidland is the supermarket to the world, or what have you. I also notice that I haven't heard any investigative reports about how they are raping the environment lately. Curious, no?
So, instead of getting to listen to actual news when I switch over from 101X because they're playing the same Foo Fighter's song for the hundredth time in a row, or because I don't want to listen to that stupid titty-bar commercial again, I am forced to listen to the local KUT voice talent saying how much they enjoyed bringing you a thirty-minute retrospective on local washboard players.
So, please, for the love of gods, vote for people who will fund NPR and PBS at higher levels. So that I can listen to that cranky sports guys on Wednesday without hearing him beg for money.
TTFN,
MST
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