NPR has received two of the largest gifts in the public media network’s existence, totaling $113 million.
They will go toward fueling innovation in NPR’s use of digital technology, increasing its connection with audiences, and ensuring the viability of public radio stations after Congress eliminated all federal funding for public media.
NPR President and CEO Katherine Maher said the gifts would help to set up the network and its stations for the next 50 years, beyond the radio network infrastructure that sprang up in 1970 from a coalition of community and university-owned public radio stations across the country.
I totally get that. NPR has been painfully centrist, as a close friend and I describe, for quite some time. Hell, Sen. Johnson comes on every week to rant about liberals. But the gold is not their political coverage. The gold is shear dearth of knowledge they bring to people. I have learned so much, through public radio. So, I wanted you to at least know, there’s more to them, than just politics. I’m sure you do, but it can’t ever hurt, if it helps someone learn something new. Blessings unto you and your family.
Oh I understand the other good they do, so I’ll never condemn them but they won’t ever recieve money from me.
Hell if I’m in the car I still put them on, but my trust in them is greatly eroded. I wish their coverage had remained centrist, but it really seemed completely tuned to justifying the conflict not providing the facts