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While the umbrella organization provides good press coverage, it does not provide financial security. Because it has no commercial base, it is easy to maintain its journalistic integrity in reporting, never avoiding certain topics out of respect or necessity; to the contrary, it is forced to rely on the generosity and the government for its funding. Listener support is valued at 34% of its total operating budget, but 6% of its funding comes from local and state funding, as well as 13% from Corporation for Public Broadcasting allocations.
Never has this organizational pique been more at risk than it was this summer, when at the President's urging, a House subcommittee voted to sharply reduce the government's support for CPB and NPR, reducing the organization's operating budget from $400 million to $300 million. Such drastic measures put the whole NPR scheme at risk; should the Congress not have rallied last minute at the fervent cries of its constituents, many public radio supporters would have lost their home stations to the rising prices in operating budgets. Such support from the government is put further more at risk in changing political times, when the noteworthy competition might be more sympathetic to the government like Fox News. "Expressing alarm, public broadcasters and their supports in Congress interpreted the move as an escalation of a Republican-led campaign against...
"Americans overwhelmingly see public broadcasting as an unbiased information source," reported Re. David Obey (Wis.). Nevertheless, sometimes the lack of a bias results in a perceived bias from those being criticized by the media. The funding scheme of the organization that forces reliance upon the very sources they report, causes necessary friction for National Public Radio. Despite that difficulty, the system should not be altered; looking at the BBC, for example, it is clear other countries provide far more funding for public media than the United States. Because the nature of a strong democracy is provided by an informed citizenry, the unbiased public media could not be more important organization to maintain.
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Fatri, Paul. "Public Broadcasting Targeted by House. Panel Seeks to End CPB's Funding Within 2 Years." Washington Post. Friday, June 10, 2005; Page A01.
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National Public Radio. "How is NPR Supported?" National Public Radio. Available Online: http://www.npr.org/about/privatesupport.html
Fatri, Paul. "Public Broadcasting Targeted by House. Panel Seeks to End CPB's Funding Within 2 Years." Washington Post. Friday, June 10, 2005; Page A01.
Public/Government Finance Public (Government) Finance This essay examines the debate over extending unemployment benefits. The essay reviews the arguments in favor of and against further extensions, and the implications for economic and social policies. After exploring the alternatives, I make a recommendation and discuss means of measuring the success or failure of my recommendation. The Apparent Problem/The Facts Unemployment insurance is compensation that is provided to workers who become unemployed through no fault of
Jewish-American Experience and the Yiddish Radio Project The Jewish-American Culture in Yiddish Oral history has become one of the most important historical movements of the last two centuries. Through oral histories in either interview or preservation of recordings that were produced in earlier times, the history of the modern era is being retold and saved. Yiddish is a dying language the last of the Yiddish speakers are being lost and a small
He doesn't mention Apple's iPod, iPod Touch, and iPad, but those devices also pose a challenge for traditional radio broadcasting. People can "…select music that suits their individual tastes and many have wider repositories of music in their own libraries" -- thanks to the iTunes and similar services -- than are offered on the playlists of radio broadcasters (Picard, p. 1). Moreover, Satellite and Internet radio are offering "hundreds of
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17). The third secondary source we will look at here is Kaiser (2009). Kaiser argues that money has corroded the electoral process in the United States. He gives statistical data on the rising cost of political campaigns as an indication of how money's importance has grown in the last several decades. If the campaigns of all the candidates for President, the House, and the Senate cost less than a billion
Volkswagen Scandal Why would a highly successful automobile manufacturing company -- the largest car company in the world, having overtaken Toyota in early 2015 -- deliberately and stealthily develop technologies that hide the truth about carbon-related emissions? And what are the financial and social ramifications of the deception that Volkswagen engaged in? This research paper has the objective of reviewing the Volkswagen Company, its history, its success, and its decision to