If the funding of the NPR government is reduced Donald TrumpManagement, will cause significant damage to the local stations in the broadcasting group, Steve Uni He tells me. “So in this sense,” he says: “NPR is weak.”
“But it is difficult to know what Donald Trump will do now,” Oli, his next book, adds. On the air, The “victory and turmoil” is picked up in NPR over 55 years. Oney notes that while Elon Musk He has He called for the calm NPR On x, “Whether they act on it is just speculation.” It is reported that Trump is already “wandering on his way through a number of projects.”
The “Defunding” talk can simplify the state of NPR’s financial affairs: The broadcaster says, on average, directly receives about 1 % of the annual Operating budget From the federal government, through grants from the Public Broadcasting Corporation (CPB) and other agencies. However, 30 % of the NPR budget comes from local stations that pay the national content license fees – and receives members on average 10 % of them Financing From CPB. It is the federal funding that has long been developed in Crosshairs from the Republican administrations.
On the air, It was 14 years old, narrates NPR’s development, and tracked the institution and its leadership from its founding in 1970 to the twenty -first century. In one case, one picks how NPR works in the events of 11/11 Vanity Fair Excerpts. While the content of the book follows the paths of the talents of the stars in the public broadcaster in the history of NPR – including Bob Edwardsand Susan Stamburg, and Irish Republican Army glass– The color, he sees NPR reflects and embodies “what is going on in the country in every specific age.”
“It is a book that he encounters during a moment when the current events are fraught with risks, and it may be NPR in the middle, but it is a history of the Foundation 55 years and the history of America during that same period,” ONY told me.
This conversation was edited for length and clarity.
Vanity Fair: Can you speak to how the NPR radio allowed to sculpt itself in an industry that has become increasingly saturated at that time and is still?
Steve Uni: Well, at the time when NPR began, the radio was the child in the electronic media. It was forgotten. In fact, the phrase “and radio” was written and registered in the draft law that the company established for the public broadcast in the last second. Glory and hope for public broadcasting was everything about a TV program. NPR was a pair of the father in the founding of the broadcasters, so he was like many wonderful stories as the sudden contestant ended with winning the race. This is the middle where the means – which many people have already written as an ideal and flexible way to tell stories. Really, you can follow the beginning of the podcast revolution, the right to the first broadcast All things look, Where they delivered this deadline, a 20 -minute documentary on a anti -Vietnam war demonstration in Washington, which occurred on the day when NPR was launched All the things that have been considered.
As you accelerate all over the book, NPR fought a perception that he had a liberal bias. In your opinion, what allowed this impression to appear?
I will not go to the point that it has a liberal bias, but I would like to say – this may be discrimination without difference – that often progressive opinions, and that was more clear during certain periods of NPR. It was very clear in the mid -seventies of the twentieth century when they already imagined a change to start creating ethnic programming and programming aimed at various races and races. It has been true recently, during Dei Dustup.
