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NPR & The Modern Media Distribution

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the best-content-isn't-always-the-most-expensive dept.

Isao writes "The U.S. National Public Radio (NPR) network is feeling the pinch between giving their content away for free on the radio and on the internet as podcasts. The dilemma is that some of their audience is turning from the radio to podcasts, not for flexibility, but to either access locally unavailable content or avoid fundraising marathons (NPR is partially funded by listener donations). This has begun to skew their financial model. What's different about NPR's response is that they're not pretending that their old business model will work forever."

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  1. Public broadcasting's business model... by Zigg · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...has always been "we're in danger! Fund us, Congress!"

    I also find it somewhat amusing that the typical response to a for-profit business facing the same conundrum around here is "adapt or die!", but for NPR... the poor things!

    Worry not your pretty little heads. If Congress has shown anything, it's a willingness to spend, spend, spend. NPR isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

  2. Re:This American Life & Car Talk by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 0, Troll

    There's no such thing as a liberal bias. There's a conservative bias, and there's the truth. That's it. And, I find it very infantile to whine about any liberal bias in the media at all, since conservatives have all the TV news locked up. Even CNN is biased conservative, as the balance of their guests who are conservative outweighs by more than 10% the guests who are liberal.

    NPR does the best job of factual reporting, and you can't call factual reporting "biased."

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    Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
  3. Would everyone like some cheese with their whine? by HotBBQ · · Score: 0, Troll

    Jesus, what a bunch of whining. People who think NPR is biased (always to the left apparently) are idiots; people who think NPR is a serious tax burden on them are idiots; people who can't put up with semi-annual fund raising drives for content they use are idiots; and finally, people who make carte blanche statements about entire groups of people are idiots themselves.