Utica Progressive

WRVO, one of Central New York’s Public Radio station is having its bi-annual fund drive this week.  I am an avid listener and have been a member for the past several years.  Like many public radio listeners I have the radio on almost all the time; it’s always on in the car, and most of the time at home.  I listen to keep me company and for the excellent news.

If you listen to public radio you know how refreshingly different it is.  The news is real news; it’s not about murders and car crashes.  I have a healthy scepticism for anything I hear in the mainstream media, which NPR may or many not be a part of, but I find that NPR news has little bias and digs into stories that few other organizations will look into.  The news does have a populist leaning, the stories are often about real people and issues that matter to the general public, instead of focusing on the stories corporations and the government are trying to push.  For this reason NPR is labeled “left leaning.”  To me, it just seems more realistic and useful.

Here’s my pitch: If you are a listener, please be a supporter as well.  I find public radio invaluable as a source of information not influenced or censored by corporate interests.  It is a news outlet owned and operated by the people, a true manifestation of what public airwaves are all about.  All of use of like mind must help to keep it going strong.