They don't LIKE public broadcasting, be it TV or radio. They don't want it to survive, never mind thrive. The "other" side wants to kill it, and use outlets like Faux to disseminate their nonsense:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/why-the-republicans-hate_b_837481.html
Why do the radical Republicans in the House hate NPR?
First, they hate any successful public sector -- non-corporate venture. It flies in the face of radical conservative belief that the "private sector" always does things better....
Second, the Republicans hate the idea that NPR is drawing listeners from stations owned by corporations like Clear Channel. They are all about "competition" until private corporations have to compete with public sector ventures that can provide superior services for less money and don't have to pay millions in profits to satisfy their corporate task masters....
Third, Republicans want to kill NPR because it presents high quality, unbiased, factually accurate news. These qualities do not sit well with people who want the Rupert Murdoch's and Fox News's of the world to control what the public has the right to hear. They think unbiased news coverage is subversive....
Fourth, the Republicans in the House wanted to attack NPR to throw some red meat to the Tea Party portion of its base....
They're starting to crawl back from the abyss over at PBS, but there are still way too many intolerant assholes working for that outfit who were hired by those assholes Bush put on the board that think that "business" and "Wall Street" news deserves a big chunk of their programming day--despite the fact that Bloomberg, CNBC, Faux, et.al, have filled that niche decisively.
I think in some situations, that it's not a question of bias. It's a question of the wingnuts taking away an outlet for information that was underserved in the first place and shoving in more rightwing claptrap that anyone can get on ten commercial stations.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0617-27.htm
To them, Fair And Balanced sounds like Fauxsnooze...it doesn't sound like NPR/PBS...and anything that does sound like that, to their pea brains, needs to be crushed and eliminated.
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