Why would any self-respecting conservative tune in to “Morning Edition” on National Public Radio?
“How can you listen to that stuff?” a conservative’s friends ask him when he sheepishly admits tuning in to “Morning Edition,” the drive-time news program on National Public Radio. After all, his fellow conservatives are appalled by the shamelessly leftist bias with which NPR reporters present nearly every issue of the day, and outraged at being taxed to support the propagation of such propaganda. Why, then, does he tune in? The fact that “Morning Edition” is often the only all-news program available on the car radio in many areas of the country has something to do with it. But the real reason, like it or not, is that the conservative has quite a lot in common with the folks at NPR. They care about the same things; they may not agree on any, but they do both care about them. The conservative wants to know what “gay” activists are up to lately, what Hillary Clinton is mouthing off about now, and what Teddy Kennedy is proposing this week to socialize the medical profession. And, often en
