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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why can’t they just sell commercial spots and survive in the marketplace like regular TV and radio?

With all the fundraising begging they do every hour as it is, I might as well be hearing commercials anyway.

Seriously though - if they can’t exist on their own, that’s an indication that they shouldn’t exist at all. [/quote]

The idea is that they can be free to report what they want and it doesn't matter if Bob's Big House of Furniture likes it or not. And, there's an idea that it's for the public good, and we can/should have media that is not purely about what Bob's Big House of Furniture is will to pay for.[/quote]

But they ARE NOT “free to report” what they want. Because if they made a trend of reporting anything that their overwhelmingly leftist listeners disagreed with, they’d get mad and they’d stop buying their Nina Toten-bags and doing monthly donations.

So NPR is just as beholden to market forces with regards to story selection as Fox News is.

Why can’t you just admit that? [/quote]

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