Hey Jason - funniest comment I have read in a long long time. Try writing one when you are not completely stoned so that we can actually understand it.

Like some others have expressed, I have a very serious problem with anyone employee reporting on, let alone interviewing them, NPR employees. Heck, it is even worse when NPR employees interview NPR administration. First step to true interviews, NPR employees, let alone NPR administration, must be interview by organizations and companies not connected with NPR in any manner, I suggest Thom Hartmann.
First step to true interviews, NPR employees, let alone NPR administration, must be asked about why their programs' hosts never seem to completely explore subjects they bring up and usually stop at the outskirts of challenging their funders, of their programs, and their political leanings (check wallstreet and private and super rich individual's funds).

Eventually, public is going to catch on and realize that tax money and public'd donations should not be funding any public media that caters to the private interests. Hopefully, at that time the public will be able to convince the politicians to make real FCC and public media funding regulations changes. I for a long time, now, have demanded that NPR, and all others, be given an ultimatum of either represent the interest of all equally or get their funding only from those Wall Street and private and super rich individual's funds, lose classification of publically funded media and the benefits that come with it.

Has Bob said "Thank You" to Ms. Schiller for the layoffs at NPR? I thought OTM "spoke truth to power" or at least the powerful media elite.

I was disturbed when listening to "On the Media" today (Sunday), because I felt the piece subordinated the radio function to that of the Internet. Some of us are not on the move all the time (think "retired," "elderly," who might find it inconvenient and uncomfortable to be online, and who depend upon NPR for a comprehensive understanding of our world today. I think my station (WHYY, Philadelpia) has got right and hope NPR management will continue to think BOTH/AND with respect to listener/viewer modes.

Ah, there you go, formerly of CNN. I felt a CNNization of NPR and in particular my local WNYC and the turn-off that is what led me to stop supporting the station and, yes, become a freeloader, yes, I FREELOAD (now and then) AND I AM PROUD OF IT. I say "now and then" because of the, in my opinion, CNNization therein. Bubbye, bubbye.

'Til Day to Day aired, my daily talk radio listening was Morning Edition, Limbaugh and ATC.

It really was the only mid-day show that could crow bar me away from the other "entertainment" of the time period.

I listen to at least 8 hours of public radio programing every day. However,I almost never listen to a radio. I listen to media that can move with me and adapt to my schedule. I mostly listen to podcasts, but I also listen to Wi-Fi and on-air streams. Many programs that I love are not available on my local station. The programs I listen to are from NPR, PRI, APM, etc. I am a member of my local NPR affiliate, (KUOW). I don't like knowing my funds support some shows I don't like, while some shows I love get nothing from me. I very much want to support the shows I listen to regularly. How else will you know what to keep and what to drop? I would have helped Day to Day stay on the air if there was a method of doing that. I am, however, on a limited income. I cannot give a substantial pledge to each show I listen to and my local stations as well. I think it is essential that NPR plan for funding in the future in ways that respond to a variety of listening needs and styles. I would love a forum to give more input. Thanks

If I go to npr.org, the last thing I want is my local NPR station (about 1 mile away). NPR is not NBC, who impose conditions on their affiliates as well as demanding they carry the network's programming, all the while protecting each station from other NBC affiliates encroaching on their turf. In the looser world of public radio individual stations are free to program they like, and I enjoy the freedom to avoid my local station by picking and choosing among a variety of public radio webstreams. (Member of Vt Public Radio to pay for some of those streams).
As long as that continues I have no need for a network stream, although I do enjoy the sliced up "listen again" segments of magazine and news shows.

I've been unemployed for one year and can't afford to be a member of our excellent NPR affiliate, KUT, as well as our community classical radio or our great co-op radio station. KUT offers music programming that is fantastic and also has two HD streams. I think the real losers will be stations in small markets which can't sustain their on-air operation due to the economy but still generate locally produced content that people might enjoy online.
I'm now in the habit of listening online to community, co-op stations such as WORT and KGNU that NPR can't match for musical diversity. Satellite radio doesn't match what's available online either.
NPR should consider an online paid access, say $5 a month, that has all their shows on one web site to stream anytime. That would be more convenient that trying to run down specific programs at a specific time that a local station may not even carry.