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Is NPR Worth the Cost?
Tue, 01/13/2009 - 7:07am | posted by Michael Orion Powell
Throughout the country, every large town over 100,000 people seems to have a common element: a local branch of National Public Radio. In all, the partially publicly funded organization has 797 public radio stations that it syndicates to.
Public broadcasting has a place in Western society. Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia all boast creative and new publicly backed media enterprises. In the United Kingdom, the BBC provides all sorts of great programming, from adaptations of Jane Austen novels to modern day radio drama. Unlike its counterparts, however, it’s questionable whether NPR is providing much groundbreaking or innovative.
And in Response to the Queen’s Message we have….Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
Fri, 12/26/2008 - 9:38am | posted by Michael Orion Powell
A peculiar story takes shape in the United Kingdom:
Human rights advocates, parliamentarians and Holocaust memorial organizations are among those vocally condemning a plan to broadcast a Christmas speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on BBC’s Channel 4 as a counterpoint to the Queen’s traditional message.
