Attempting to listen to an entire interview on NPRs FRESH AIR with TERRY GROSS (who herself gets exhausted by the commercial breaks every 8 minutes) is rather "Weathering" which points to two things
1) Commercial domince of America is a form of cultural pollution which is "WEATHERING" us all to death .
2) NPRs "extinential crisis" is at least in part a result of so many lousy, monotonous commercial sponsors who's ads never change especially in early afternoons! (Math JERKS, Volkswagen like an SUV- model never updated! update your payment method, wkatz Up y'all......)
And something they can't change is today's competition for ears from other liberal medias (Democracy Now, MSNBC,CNN,) and from the wide variety of streaming radio options online and via WiFi.
For instance and I'm guilty of ditching NPR for local college radio, the zillion bilingual options over "China radio" direct from the PRC (+TikTok radio - plays American oldies) and FDNY fire radio - from my former hometown - over Broadcastify.com which hosts many Fire, Police and public service radio streams from around the U. S !
So NPR continues to be my love-hate audio background - UNTIL I change the channel!
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