Fuck NPR liberal propaganda bullshit
Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio
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Re: Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio
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> Libertarian and thus social conservative and economically liberal Isn't that the opposite of a libertarian?
You're absolutely right. It is late at night here but regardless I have no excuse. I have no clue why I typed it that way (fixed the original post since it was within the edit window)
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Re: Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio
#43A couple of years ago, I took my family on a road trip starting from Phoenix and ended up in SF. We drove north from Phoenix and hit a few of the amazing parks including Yellowstone and then west to Portland and then south to SF. And public radio was part of the fun for us. Aside from our beloved NPR, I loved how the only stations we could get gave us an insight on who probably lived in the areas we were driving through. I never really liked country music, but on that trip, I grew to actually appreciate it. Not to mention the number of new songs and artists we were able to discover. Some of those songs we now associate with the various places along the way.
Re: Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio
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> Libertarian and thus social conservative and economically liberal Isn't that the opposite of a libertarian?
He's using conservative and liberal in their classical senses, whereby conservative connotes restraint in legislating social issues and liberal connotes freedom of the marketplace.
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Re: Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio
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It occurs to me that a FM radio should be capable of automatically doing this hand-off, thanks to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Data_System If a station signal goes weak, the radio could scan the FM stations for another station which is known to broadcast the same signal (according to, say, an internal cross-matching database, or some other means).
It certainly can, however OTA radio is very localized - to the city usually, by tradition - so it wouldn't make much sense to build such a network. NPR is probably the only radio network that could do a common band cross country, but even then, NPR just syndicates itself to other stations so it's not really in their interest to do so.
This is quickly changing. The Brew is the same everywhere, Nash FM is the same everywhere, and I'm pretty sure you can get Sixx Sense or Free Beer and Hot Wings in basically every market. Clear Channel/I Heart Radio is pushing hard to make every radio station the same across the country.
Re: Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Libertarian and thus social conservative and economically liberal Isn't that the opposite of a libertarian?
_Probably_ just a typo, imo. Then again, I've never found two libertarians who could agree on what being libertarian actually means, so maybe not.
Doesn't libertarian mean whatever the hell you want it to be because libertarian?
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#47I love NPR. My wife makes fun of me because sometimes I sit in the car with the battery / radio on after I park just to hear a story finish. New Hampshire Public radio has a lot of local news and features too, which I can't hear anywhere else. I'm sure other markets are the same. You can get it on Alexa too because most of the shows are also podcasts which is also great. I've also heard a lot from my conservative fri…
> I'm a Libertarian and thus social conservative and economically liberally That's fascinating; I've been called Libertarian because I'm the opposite. I'm socially progressive yet fiscally conservative, and from what I've read, there are branches of Libertarianism that can embrace either extreme or a mixture. I've listened to NPR since I was a teenager in the early 90s, and while I don't always agree with the comment…
There's liberal as in "tolerate how other people choose to live" and there's liberal as in "spend a lot of money on big government solutions to social problems" and nobody can claim to be libertarian and be liberal in the latter sense.
Re: Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio
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Economics is such a small portion of what NPR covers. And most of the time it is things like what the market did today which are fact based. Do I disagree with stuff they say sometimes? Absolutely. But not enough to change the station. Then again, I am more tolerant or opposing views than most, unfortunately.
> I am more tolerant or opposing views than most, unfortunately. Why do you say "unfortunately"? I would say it is a strength if you can tolerate opposing views without necessarily accepting them.
He is saying it is unfortunate that others are not as tolerant of opposing views.
Re: Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio
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It certainly can, however OTA radio is very localized - to the city usually, by tradition - so it wouldn't make much sense to build such a network. NPR is probably the only radio network that could do a common band cross country, but even then, NPR just syndicates itself to other stations so it's not really in their interest to do so.
This is quickly changing. The Brew is the same everywhere, Nash FM is the same everywhere, and I'm pretty sure you can get Sixx Sense or Free Beer and Hot Wings in basically every market. Clear Channel/I Heart Radio is pushing hard to make every radio station the same across the country.
Very interesting thanks. I haven't been involved in FM radio since 2008 so I've been a bit out of the loop.