I find NPR to be a balanced source of news. Perhaps not quite as clean as the BBC, but certainly close. It's hard to judge, because I don't hear all of the BBC broadcasts. But much of what I do hear from BBC is broadcast on NPR. Paul
-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: John Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "P. J. Alling" > > John Sessoms wrote: > >> > From: "P. J. Alling" > >>> >> If they don't want the party in power to mess with them they > >>> >> shouldn't take any Government money. On the other hand the I don't > >>> >> think lack of Government money will keep organizations and > >>> >> individuals from being messed with by bureaucrats for much longer, > >>> >> mores the pity. > >> > > >> > Yet somehow the BBC manages to do it. > >> > > > The BBC has a different heritage. I'll bet the Blair government wanted > > to, based on some of the stories I listened to... > > And I'm sure the Thatcher & Major governments liked them even less. > > But my point is that NPR, which is NOT actually "National" doesn't seem > able to fend off political interference, while the BBC, which IS, does. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
