Turning 40, NPR is a news powerhouse
David Johnson March 13th, 2007
NPR came into being when a couple of administration officials snuck “and radio” after every mention of “television” in LBJ’s Public Television Act, which was sent from the Oval Office to Capitol Hill in February of 1967. Washingtonian Magazine takes a long look at the road NPR has taken to become a thriving news organization and wonders if it has lost its roots along the way. The once freewheeling alternative network now has more foreign bureaus than the Washington Post and draws 26 million listeners a week. It is also financially sound and nearly independent from the body that created it - only one percent of NPR’s revenues come from Congress.
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1. Anonymous | March 13th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
It should be noted Congress budgets no money whatsoever for NPR. But when there’s a government need for a radio network, the government contracts that work out to NPR. Not that you’re one of those nutcases who thinks NPR is liberal for reporting facts (a well-known liberal ploy) and should therefore not be funded by the government.
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