iTunes also hates FLAC, which is why I have hardly used it, even for many years when a Mac was my everyday desktop system.
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WTF are you talking about? First, only 5% of NPR is government funding. Second, NPR is more balanced than any other news source - verifiably so. Just because it doesnât skew to your bias doesnât mean itâs unbalanced.
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The message boards are inundated with assholes from the Refunded Society.
Your outrage is misplaced, man.
NPR is a tool of the = wut?
Liberal intelligentsia?
Nope, just people with limited access.
Why are you so hostile, right off the bat? Agenda much?
p.s. And you have a cheering section already established, operative? Nice.
I heard an interesting opinion piece on this (on a podcast whose name I canât recall at present). Promoting their podcasts on the radio is unnecessary to the point of being ridiculous. Itâs the equivalent of a print newspaper publishing the URL of their articles on the web. If youâre the type of person who reads a print newspaper or listens to programs on the radio, you either a) are uninterested in the other sources or b) are savvy enough to find it on your own.
iTunes has been DRM-free since 2009.
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PBS is experiencing similar things right now. Their structure is controlled by a charter by Congress written pre-internet. As a result, PBS, the national organization, cannot create their own station. The member stations control the TV broadcasts. There are squishy questions right now about streaming apps on the PBS side. Is this publishing platform a âstationâ? Thereâs a tension between personalization and rooting stations around communities.
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This comes three years after NPR flagship Station KCRW booted Tom Schnabelâs Cafe L.A. (now Rhythm Planet) and Harry Shearerâs sometimes NPR-critical (and always fracking-critical) Le Show off the air and into podcastland with big promises to promote the podcasts.
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