Public radio has always been so powerless.
My folks were and are devoted public radio fans, who started listening to 'A Prairie Home Companion' in the 1980s; Garrison and Co. were the permanent headliners of their weekends.
From Public Radio International, there's 'PRI's The World', which is the States looking out at the rest of the globe. Elsewhere, the 'Global News Podcast' from the BBC World Service offers something similar.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations.
I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.
Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.
One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.
But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.
