On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 06:07:44PM -0800, Gautam Mukunda wrote: > But it's not a real parallel, because Halliburton wins those contracts > on a free market basis.
I think he has a point, Gautam. Everyone competes for government money. The government could cut off all funding for public radio, or give it to some conservative public radio organization (or send it to NASA, or or to DOE, or some local pork, etc.). So, NPR is competing in much the same way anyone else competes for federal grants, which bears much similarity to competing for federal contracts. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
