Tag Archives: NPR

Why NPR is the Future of Mainstream Media

Posted by JD Thomas on 03. Jun, 2009 in Techfun Comments Off

In March of this year, National Public Radio (NPR) revealed that by the end of 2008, 23.6 million people were tuning into its broadcasts each week. In fact, NPR’s ratings have increased steadily since 2000, and they’ve managed to hold on to much of their 2008 election coverage listenership bump (with over 26 million people  Read more »

Here We Go Again – Public Broadcasting’s funding threatened.

Posted by JD Thomas on 09. Feb, 2008 in Techfun Comments Off

There is a lot of federal spending that is either ineffective or so inefficient that the money should stay in the federal coffers.  That does not apply to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.  In fact, the first four syllable word I knew as a child was Corporation because of the credit that appeared at the  Read more »