I have a different take. Consuming media isn’t like buying goods in a grocery store. It’s a different market model.
The costs of production, broadcast, etc. are heavily financed and paid for by corporate marketing and advertisers, and increasingly, by powerful, well-capitalized interests that have a stake in influencing how you view the world.
Couple million dollars for public radio? It’s peanuts. Who cares?
A couple TRILLION for CitiBank, Goldman and Chase? Believe me, NPR isn’t the problem. Wall Street is THE PROBLEM. The undue power and influence of corporations in THE PROBLEM. We’ll never get accurate truthful information on any of this from a corporate press driven by ratings, profits and ideology.
