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Thu, 06 Jul 2006 19:40:40 +0000

[...] Lucky for me and others concerned that public radio makes it in the digital era, NPR has convened the Digital Distribution Consortium (DDC), a six-member working group tasked, says Jake Shapiro, to “think through digital distribution services that would benefit from a greater degree of coordination across the system.” As part of its transparent process, the DDC and has started a wiki, while Todd Mundt of Michigan Public Radio and Jake Shapiro of Public Radio Exchange are blogging the meetings. Jake describes the group’s first week of work: We’ve decided to organize our efforts by writing a business plan for an ‘entity’ that would perform these services, describing the markets it would target, its products and services, revenue model, competitive position, strategic partners, risks, technology and operational needs, expenses and investment requirements — a full picture. [...]

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Media SITREP » Public Radio Wrestles with Digital Future — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:47:55 +0000

By: Michael Crane

Michael Crane — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:30:37 +0000

Zeroing in on your question "does our mission change or expand?"...

I think it stays exactly as it has since the beginning. Check out Bill Moyer's stemwinder from the recent PBS Showcase conference. Watch it or read the transcript

Moyers says :

It's right in our own PBS guidelines. Go to Paragraph F, under headline "Courage and Controversy."

You will read there: "The ultimate task of weighing and judging information and viewpoints is, in a free and open society, the task of the audience."

You will read there the pledge we have made as public broadcasters to seek "content that provides courageous and responsible treatment of issues, and that reports and comments, with honesty and candor, on social, political and economic tensions, disagreements and divisions."

You will read there the promise that our "overall content will offer a broad range of opinions and points of view, including those from outside society's existing consensus" - those from outside society's existing consensus.

We couldn't ask for a clearer statement of our mission.

We couldn't find a more affirmative reason for being.

We couldn't want a more resounding call to action.

Go Bill! Go public radio and TV!

By: Michael Crane

Michael Crane — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 18:30:37 +0000

Zeroing in on your question “does our mission change or expand?”…

I think it stays exactly as it has since the beginning. Check out Bill Moyer’s stemwinder from the recent PBS Showcase conference. Watch it or read the transcript

Moyers says :

It’s right in our own PBS guidelines. Go to Paragraph F, under headline “Courage and Controversy.”

You will read there: “The ultimate task of weighing and judging information and viewpoints is, in a free and open society, the task of the audience.”

You will read there the pledge we have made as public broadcasters to seek “content that provides courageous and responsible treatment of issues, and that reports and comments, with honesty and candor, on social, political and economic tensions, disagreements and divisions.”

You will read there the promise that our “overall content will offer a broad range of opinions and points of view, including those from outside society’s existing consensus” – those from outside society’s existing consensus.

We couldn’t ask for a clearer statement of our mission.

We couldn’t find a more affirmative reason for being.

We couldn’t want a more resounding call to action.

Go Bill! Go public radio and TV!