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<div>Columbia Journalism Review</div>
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<div><b>Relying on federal funding might be a fatal mistake for public
media:</b></div>
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<div>Cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would have a
greater impact on smaller local television and radio stations.</div>
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>http://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/trump-budget-npr-public-media.ph<span
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<div>Although bigger media organizations, including the flagship NPR
and PBS, and larger affiliate station operators have diversified
revenue streams that could provide a cushion, local news operations
are in particular danger. The ongoing battle to defund public media
has literally lasted decades-as a pet issue for Republican
politicians who argue the programming has a liberal slant.<br>
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Public media operations-and loyal listeners-are expected to put up
a fierce fight against potential funding cuts. But hanging on to the
hope that federal funding will always be around could potentially be a
fatal mistake for local stations, former NPR President and CEO Vivian
Schiller tells CJR. All public media players, she says, ought to
double down on efforts to court listener support and philanthropic
giving as a hedge against the continued, and perhaps complete,
reduction of government support.<br>
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