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“My hope is that we can move away from a model of asking listeners for money and join the free market,” host of public radio’s This American Life Ira Glass declared last month (Ad Age, 4/30/15):
I think we’re ready for capitalism which made this country so great. Public radio is ready for capitalism.
The context was “Hearing Is Believing,” an event sponsored by NPR and member stations WNYC and WBEZ to pitch public radio (and its podcasts) as an advertising vehicle (American Community Radio, 5/12/15).
Last week, Glass wrote a column in the public broadcasting trade paper Current (5/13/15) to “clarify” his comments: He was not suggesting that programmers “chase ratings and destroy everything that makes public radio special.” Instead, he meant he wanted “companies [to] come on our shows and pay lots of money,” and then public radio should use that money for good things–not bad things, as you might have assumed that he meant.
Ira Glass Clarifies That Public Radio Is Ready for the GOOD Kind of Capitalism FAIR
NPR has a history of whitewashing and at this point it really doesn't matter. As mentioned when they are underwriting shows that pretty much is the same. WBEZ has pretty much gotten rid of everything that I found useful and can bite it. The last hold out is the Barber Shop show when I catch it. They dropped their radio drama which I think came from the LA Theater Works. They did do a pretty good program on Dante Alighieri via CBC last week.
I think we’re ready for capitalism which made this country so great. Public radio is ready for capitalism.
The context was “Hearing Is Believing,” an event sponsored by NPR and member stations WNYC and WBEZ to pitch public radio (and its podcasts) as an advertising vehicle (American Community Radio, 5/12/15).
Last week, Glass wrote a column in the public broadcasting trade paper Current (5/13/15) to “clarify” his comments: He was not suggesting that programmers “chase ratings and destroy everything that makes public radio special.” Instead, he meant he wanted “companies [to] come on our shows and pay lots of money,” and then public radio should use that money for good things–not bad things, as you might have assumed that he meant.
Ira Glass Clarifies That Public Radio Is Ready for the GOOD Kind of Capitalism FAIR
NPR has a history of whitewashing and at this point it really doesn't matter. As mentioned when they are underwriting shows that pretty much is the same. WBEZ has pretty much gotten rid of everything that I found useful and can bite it. The last hold out is the Barber Shop show when I catch it. They dropped their radio drama which I think came from the LA Theater Works. They did do a pretty good program on Dante Alighieri via CBC last week.