Mel Park
2008-03-16 10:45:25
An essential source of funds for public radio is listener donations. While these donations are made to local stations those local funds are, in large part, sent to NPR to pay for their various programs. Since NPR is dependent upon those funds, NPR must play to its listeners. If it doesn’t listener donations will fall. This is the most insidious influence on NPR content. It is much more a factor in determining what NPR broadcasts than the so-called corporate and advertiser interests that NPR (and PBS) claim as controlling commercial broadcast content.
