"Brenda Ann Dyer" wrote in message
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Anyone that says that a great deal of the programming on AFN is liberal
has
never listened to AFN. As it's all I HAVE to listen to, I know
differently.

The primary programs carried on our AFN outlets are music programs (C/W,
rock, urban, oldies). The other programming is a pretty balanced mix of
Rush, Dr. Laura, Sports Overnight USA, Jim Rome, and, yes, All Things
Considered (which here, runs in the middle of the night). They also run
other NPR (Public Radio International) programming on the weekends, but
those programs are mostly non-political (Car Talk) or satire/entertainment
(Prarie Home Companion). News sources on the radio include local and
Pentagon news sources, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, CNN and various independents.
In
short, AFN works quite diligently to balance their programming so that no
one point of view is pushed over another. Considering the military is a
right-leaning institution, I think that's quite commendable and in keeping
with the spirit of the First Amendment.


ACK!! And after reading the article, I have one more thing to say.. well,
maybe two.

I don't like Rush. I think he's a brainless blowhard. However, I don't think
anyone takes him seriously.. he's entertainment, no different than Howard
Stern or Rosie O'Donnell.

As for the assertion that Rush's program is being used to condition the
troops... that's laughable. For starters, Rush is on the AM outlets. Hardly
any of the troops bother to even listen to the AM outlets. Most of them
here in Korea, and I'm sure elsewhere, are in their late teens to mid
twenties. Out of those, the vast majority tune into either the rock or urban
music services on the FM outlets. Or they listen to CD's. The AM outlets run
oldies in the morning after All Things Considered, up till time for noon
news (which is a one hour bank which includes Army/Air Force/Navy/Marine
Corps news services, Paul Harvey news and comments, Rest of the Story, Focus
on the Family and a short blurb from a different chaplain every day, along
with network news feeds. This is followed by Dr. Laura. After that, C/W
music till 5 PM, then Jim Rome, an hour of news similar to the noon news,
then Sports Overnight USA, followed by Rush Limbaugh at 7:00 and various
news and information programming from 8:00 on. And I can tell you that
almost NOBODY listens to ANY of it. (I do, because I haven't any use for any
of the new 'music' (gads, I sound like my parents). By the same token, none
of those young soldiers has any use for news or 'old people's music'.

*climbs down from soapbox*