Kai Ryssdal on Why Losing Federal Funding Was Good for Public Radio
Scott Galloway talks with Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal about billionaire-owned newspapers, why public radio's structure is broken, and Ryssdal's view that losing federal funding was good for public media.
The gist
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Galloway recalls donating to KCRW after two years of listening on his commute, only to have the host himself answer the phone.
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Ryssdal calls Jeff Bezos's handling of the Washington Post a travesty, citing the spiked Harris endorsement and 300 more recent job cuts.
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Ryssdal says the tension between hundreds of local member stations and national strategy is a recipe for disaster in public radio.
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Ryssdal argues federal funding hooked public media, and that one-time seed money in 1967 would have left it stronger today.
"There was a voice similar to your voice, just like this great voice that sort of reeked of credibility, who hosted in the mornings, and I listened for two years and I thought, and I'd never done this before, I thought I should probably give up 50 or 100 bucks... So I called an..."
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