[Cadaverous Pallor]

I'm leaning more and more left these days, mainly because the right seems to be moving even further right. I love NPR, but admit I don't watch PBS at all these days....although I would love my own kids to watch Sesame Street and the like. I realize that my reasons for wanting the gov't to support these services is because they are good for me, which is a very self-serving reason. I used to be against all kinds of gov't funded things. Let's face it, if Sesame Street were kicked out of public television, a bidding war would ensue and some network would snap it up.

I'm still conservative enough to notice a liberal bias in much of NPR's programming. It bugs me that they don't have enough balance. But that's an administrative matter - who decides what gets on the air? I'm not talking about getting a Bill O'Reilly type but someone who's a little more middle. Much of the bias I've seen is rather light, they do a pretty good job of tempering themselves, but it's obvious that a program like This American Life (which I adore) isn't exactly a centered one.

So yeah, I hope public TV gets support because I like listening to it...any more than that hurts my head. And if it doesn't get support we'll have to donate more money, I guess.