I would be interested to know how other people view the radio these days. I only ever listened to the radio for music, but now I cannot even stomach the radio because there is less and less music , and the news in between it just seems more and more blatantly biased and obnoxious. So I just don't listen to it anymore.

It's a shame, I really used to enjoy taking a radio with me camping, when around 4 in the morning or so , they start to play really strange and exciting music , and it was always worth carrying it around in the backpack, but now it's just dead weight in my opinion.