I was almost going to post this via Breitbart article yesterday but here it is again (I almost figured why bother, they'll get bailed out anyway.)
NPR is known for great conservative programming like...
Um...
Who pays for them (govt subsidies), even if you aren't a "member" of your local NPR station?
Got a mirror?
The Washington com-Post article. (”ADVERTISING revenue”???
I thought they were non-commercial! There is talk of
dropping Tell Me More, catering to blacks and other
minorities.
>>Another problem area: The strong audience growth that NPR’s news and entertainment programs experienced over the past decade appears to have flattened, a potentially worrisome development because more stations are carrying NPR’s programs.
The increasingly bearish climate poses a challenge for Knell, a highly regarded public-media manager who became NPR’s chief executive in December. Knell replaced Vivian Schiller, who resigned in March last year after an embarrassing episode in which two NPR fundraisers were recorded making disparaging comments about conservatives in a meeting with two men posing as donors from a bogus Islamic group.
...that's Knell, as in death knell...
looking at the balance sheets, this is big corporation with close to 600 million in assets.
Now’s the time for George Cloony and Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and M. Moore to step up and bail them out. They could give up one day’s wages and have it covered. But I won’t hold my breath.
You forgot to label it as a Dinosaur Media Deathwatch thread!
NPR has something in common with the New York Times. In a largely center-right nation, they insist on larding their product with left-wing propaganda, while studiously filtering out or deliberately ridiculing opposing viewpoints and inconvenient truths. The totalitarian left can not tolerate an honest debate, and so they reflexively turn to suppression of free thought and free speech as their shield.
It’s no wonder that it’s a hard sell, when you deliberately not only snub, but further go out of your way to insult the sensibilities of a majority of your potential customer base.