> "NPR, along with the NAB, has been part of a lobbying effort to require this free radio feature to be enabled" Do we really need a law for this? If people wa

> "NPR, along with the NAB, has been part of a lobbying effort to require this free radio feature to be enabled" Do we really need a law for this? If people wanted it they would just demand it from manufacturers and/or carriers > "Smulyan's lobbying has prompted the Indiana Senate to urge mobile carriers to activate the FM chip." Total newspeak. Government bodies don't "urge", they force. > "When the power grid is out, the only lifeline for the American public is having an FM tuner" If you can't afford a battery powered radio, you can't afford a cell phone. And BTW if the FM tuner is your "only lifeline", you might want to reevaluate your preparedness for anything serious at all. > "Every time you buy a phone, you've paid for that radio," Smulyan says. Probably not true. In all likelihood the cost of the chip has no bearing on the cost of your device, and even if it did it would probably cost more to design separate chips (one with and one with the tuner) for separate markets, and that cost would get passed on to consumers > "What Americans really want is the ability to stream, download and customize music playlists to meet their personal preferences," Carpenter said, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, "and that's not what the traditional FM radio offers." What an arrogant asshole. His condescending presumptuous attitude aside, neither of these options precludes the other and what consumers probably want is every option at their disposal.