Michelle Malkin (*sigh*) writes about how Christian broadcasters are knocking NPR programming off the air in some markets.
The religious radio revolution is the result of plain old hard work and sharp business acumen. Unlike NPR and its nearly 300 member affiliates across the country, which have grown fat and lazy while feasting on federal taxpayer handouts since birth, Christian entrepreneurs have been diligently raising private capital to purchase "full-power" stations on the low end of the FM dial, which is reserved for non-commercial, educational stations.A provision buried in federal broadcasting law gives full-power stations the power to bump small "translator" stations-such as local NPR affiliates that retransmit programming from larger, distant sources-off the air.
Caught napping, NPR radio executives and their media cheerleaders are crying foul. Left-wing radio host Laura Flanders who hosts a San Francisco talk show attacked evangelical programming as "vitriol." A Variety magazine editorial lambasted Christian radio as "strident." "It is, like, nuts," complained one NPR general manager to the New York Times.
And you're feeling that fire roasting yours, aren't you?
High time NPR got what was coming to it.
