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Eight New Year’s Resolutions for NPR and CEO Katherine Maher to Consider
The reasons Congress created NPR (National Public Radio) under the Nixon Administration were to fill the yawning gaps of commercial radio in local, national, and international news coverage and to give voice to the people without the censorship that comes from advertisers. It was to be publicly funded by taxpayers. Almost 55 years later, NPR…