You both have a major perception problems in your descriptions.

There are no national programs (that I know of anyway) that even try to
achieve a 100% rational + compassionate approach to the problems the US
and world face. Hate and irrationality and downright stupidity come
washing in tsunami waves from both sides. Anybody with an objective
bone in his thick skull can hear it, day in and day out, relentlessly
pouring out of "got mine, now get out" Limbaugh and those Marxist
ninnies on Air America. I have not yet heard Al Franken's show, and I
generally like his perspective (with some reservations), but the guys
on Fox and *some* of the Public Radio guys are just as warped.

Commercial radio is flaccid...no worthy perspective at all

There is no decent across-the-board reporting on national airwaves
these days. A person just has to listen to as much as he can stomach,
and try to sort it out himself. Hopefully, the people of the US and
world are still intelligent enough to achieve this...
Although I doubt that too.

Bruce Jensen