You know from reading here the media in Saint Louis are a miserable lot. If you look in the dictionary you will see St. Louis media next to the definition of mediocrity.
But, there are a few beacons of light in this world of darkness. One of them is KWMU Radio, which to be honest, is where I work part time when someone is sick or on vacation. Am I biased? Maybe. But, do any of the other radio stations in this market compare with news coverage? No way! Not even the archaic CBS affiliate downtown that considers itself "The Sports Voice of America".
KWMU is funded in part by congress and it's annual appropriation to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. A house committee has decided it would be wise to cut funding to the CPB by about 45 percent. Only ten percent of KWMU's annual budget comes from the CPB but still funding is funding. (And the less time the local NPR affiliates spend begging for money, the better off we all are).
So my request to you is to contact your congressman and Senators and tell them to put it back. After all it is only a drop in the bucket compared to what Dubya is spending in Iraq.
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