Damned Public Radio

AHHH!!!

How is it that all three public radio stations I listen to (KUOW, KEXP, and KPLU) have their pledge drives on the same week?! You know those bastards plan it that way.

I plan to donate, honestly I do...but they almost lost me this morning. I had been waiting to hear the President's speech about the Nobel Prize, and I was interested to hear the commentary/analysis from the NPR live coverage. Instead, those asshats over at KUOW decide to start blabbering away about how nice it was of them not to talk over the President's speech, and then they ran some lame ass pledge commercial that some local family made... all the while I was cursing them for talking over the stuff I wanted to hear. (not to mention the commercial had loud alarms and horns and crap like that...not something I want to hear before my first cup of coffee) They prattled on for about 8 minutes, then tuned back in for 4 minutes of NPR (during which there was some lame story about the parliment in the Maldives scuba diving for a session or something like that) then they came back on and prattled for another 10 minutes or so. During that time they met the goal for that program, but did they stop yammering? Hell no, they decided to try for another 5 grand or something. In the end, I was able to listen to 4 minutes of news coverage during my commute to work, the rest was filled with those damned chipper hosts blabbering on and on and on and on and pissing me off. I was sorely tempted to fire off some sort of angry email when I got to work.

In the end I decided to complain here instead. Lucky you.

But seriously, do they think that people find there crappy pledge jokes funny? Do they not realize how pissed off pledge week makes people? Or is it just me?