At the Idaho Freedom Foundation on November 27, 2020 there is an article by Wayne Hoffman titled Idaho lawmakers must cut taxpayer support for left-leaning public radio. His article title displays a ridiculous level of arrogance toward lawmakers – ordering (must) rather than suggesting (should) how they act. Wayne is upset about Boise State Public Radio, who only get 15% of their support from the state while the rest comes from members.
If he wanted to further alarm us, Wayne also could have said that over twenty percent of their content comes from a service supported by a foreign government. From 11:00 PM to 4:00 AM they carry the BBC World Service.
Normally we would have expected Wayne to whine that our majority Republican state government should not support public radio because it is highly unpopular with the listening public. But based on the last ratings for Boise (shown above in a bar chart) that simply is not true. Boise State Public Radio news was third in the Top Twenty and just behind another news station, KBOI-AM. They are ahead of KIDO-AM, who carries Fox News and tied for seventh. And the other Boise State Public Radio station, which carries classical music tied for eleventh.
The image was adapted from a Watch Your Step poster at Wikimedia Commons.
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