Comment by dralley
21 hours ago
NPR can also be a bit of a meme sometimes. Maybe it's just circumstance but every time I hear NPR for any period of time longer than about 20 minutes they do a segment on a topic like polyamory, how women are proudly reclaiming the word "bimbo", or people protesting the administration using interpretive dance.
It is certainly not programming with much mass market appeal.
Perhaps not every form of media needs to be engagement-driven?
The beautiful thing about public media is that it can broadcast things that don't have a profit-motive for being broadcast.
> The beautiful thing about public media is that it can broadcast things that don't have a profit-motive for being broadcast.
True, so one would expect to have heard much more about Bernie Sanders when he was making runs for president. Unfortunately the only coverage he usually got on likes of NPR was when it was something negative about him.
So much for straying from profit motive.
Shouldn’t publicly funded media at least be representative of the wide diversity of views and interests that the public holds?
What topics and interests do you think they've never covered?