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NPR: "Transforming into a Public Media Company"
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NPR: "Transforming into a Public Media Company"

Gadgets & Tech – The Knight Foundation has given a $1.5 million grant to help NPR work with the Knight Digital Media Center as the non-commercial news organization increases its expansion into digital news. The investments intend to speed the news industry's digital transformation and accelerate NPR's transformation into a public media company.

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This sounds like an excellent opportunity for amateur journalists and media entrepreneurs to gain useful knowledge on the future of digital media.

I applaud the Knight Foundation for making such a commitment to the continued expansion of digital news programs.

Good post populist.

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I really liek NPR. Its very sympathetic to my Right Wing views.

I wuz listenin the other day and they had this guy on there who wanted to scrape the entire tax code and replace it with a sales tax.

Now the only difference between NPR and say FOX, is that NPR lets liberals contribute their views as well. Plus, they dont interrupt the spekaer and call them names.

Liek this no tax guy. He went on and on. And not only that, the interviewer asked him questions that allowed him to expand on his right wing visin.

Now ifn a liberal wuz on OReilly, he woulda been shouted downa and called a wakco.

Im glad we Conservatives has so many medias at our disposal.

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I'm sure glad that you didn't say NPR was sympathetic to Israel. NPR loves the Palestinians and I love them for that. There is a website that details it pretty well at camera.org. Here is another website that talks about another bias at NPR

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/...

but I will continue to put my head in the sand and ignore that bias because I had a premonition that one day that we liberals could accuse those conservatives of media bias and some of our fringe followers would actually believe it. I guess premonitions can come true! Curiously, my world was rocked by that link because it said that Fox and NPR are the two organizations that are believed by the greatest number of people to present the news in an unbiased manner. CNN was lower than both FOX and NPR. Oh well, I have to go start a rumor now that CNN is biased to the conservatives. Wish me luck!

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Goppy,

Looks like lovemylibs is trying to give you some competition in the niche you've created on NS. Luckily, it isn't very good competition. Not good at all!

As for the fellow you were speaking of on NPR, I'm just glad he wasn't tasered for going on and on.

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Did you hear the one about CNN having a conservative bias?

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NPR is pretty much Mainstream Media.

I quit a number of years ago when their morning "news" included commentary like- "Did you ever notice how WARM your coffee cup is in the morning?"

NPR has decided to back the corporate (neocon) position on most things as far as I can tell...

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Money well spent! The Knight Foundation stands for quality when it comes to supporting media that inform and educate citizens. There is so much room for improvement when it comes to mainstream tv and radio news reporting, newspapers, and social news sites. Any journalist who can use multimedia effectively to write, visualize, produce, edit, inspire, educate, and inform the public will benefit from this grant.

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Absolutely. the more that people learn about the power of digital media, the better our choice of "news" will be over the years....

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I for one hope this doesn't spell the end of public radio as we know it. For those who have been with NPR since day one we've seen it grow from a fledgling is-it-gonna-work radio experiment to a world respected news and entertainment organization.

While I don't agree with everything NPR broadcasts, it is the one news source I rely on for factual, honest news. FOX can't say that.

It just seems, in my opinion, that once any type of an organization gets going big, it loses its focus and original intent and gets bogged down on process. Let's hope this will not be NPR's case.

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