If the service pubcasting provided “was indeed so valuable that we, the American people, could not do without it,” writes libertarian blogger J.J. Jackson, “they would not need to beg their government benefactors for a single dime. ” Instead of a bailout, Jackson adds, “What they need is programming that people will tune in to hear!”
A reply: Upstate New York pubradio engineer Aaron Read replies to Jackson: Why are so many liberatarians hypocrites when it comes to NPR?