NOT ALL LIBERAL THINGS DISTORTED.

I've long been of the view that public radio is censorship per se and a regressive transfer, providing lengthy segments from distant countries in order that sandalistas get their nose-flute-music fix, while neglecting the lived experience of taxpayers in the States.  There's also been an undercurrent of discontent with public radio from the left, and every so often that current eddies up.

Ever wonder why you rarely hear serious discussion on National Public Radio (NPR) about corporate crime and violence?

For a hint as to why, pick up the most recent NPR annual report, and flip through the listing of corporate criminals and other major recidivist law violators on the corporate sponsor page.

The essay is more about working the program directors at public radio to report more on corporate crime (and less on Tyra Banks's puppers?) than it is about abolishing the service or removing the public subsidies.

Isn't hiding bad news in order for one of those droning narrators to say "The following program is made possible by a grant from Exxon Mobil" while working from a government building prima facie evidence of a regressive transfer?