While listeners rely on public radio stations as virtually the last bastion of serious news and talk, their dependence on corporate underwriting raises some very troubling issues.
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks, a little-noticed decision by the Bush administration last May has emerged as a powerful symbol of US fecklessness.
Media coverage of the worst terrorist attack in American history is full of reactions rather than reporting and irresponsible conjecture about the Taliban's responsibility.
Dan Kennedy speaks with Jerold Starr, public broadcasting advocate, about Starr's campaign to save his local public television foundation, the resulting lessons and their national implications.
