NPR delivers news from all over the US, from all over the world. This is news covering every aspect of life.

One thing very unique about NPR is that it is not necessarily about people but about the things that affect them. When NPR puts a teacher, mother, father, son, daughter, grandmother, grandfather,  politician, author, musician, doctor, etc on air, it places emphasis on the things that make all of these indivuduals human.

When you turn on another station, you will hear individuals' names bounced on air a few times. Yes, media is about people, but primarily about things that concern the people. This is NPR.

This concern for people is a process that involves  intense thought process rare to come by. NPR provides listeners with stimulating and challenging debates that compel them to think about their own communities, to question they way things are.  When a station beats drums over people names, no one can hear....

For NPR you tune in but do not know for certain what is airing in that particular programme. That is why it is news. This, is why the station is not a political party mouth.  That is why it puts in the open good and bad news about its own workers first ( recap on the recent donation scandal that led to the resignation of the top ranking NPR staff),  it reveals to the public news about Democratic Party members, about Republican Party members and the others. It is the station to listen to when you are willing to hear well-researched news.

As a matter of fact, the current Utah news state that about 80% of the population wants to have HB477 repealed thereby allowing  among other things more freedom to information access. NPR's intensive and also extensive news research aligns itself with the same grounding principles which the majority of the local citizens seem to hold in their intent for this appeal. So, really it looks like this is the best time in the history of information and broadcasting  to support diversified reporting by NPR.

Please oppose H.R. 1076 for increased access to information.