Ira on Capitalism and Public Radio

Ira writes:

Two weeks ago I told a reporter from Ad Age that public radio is ready for capitalism. I see people commenting online about what they think I meant. I wrote this article to clarify.

I did NOT mean that public radio should abandon its mission and shoot instead for ratings and big bucks. I’m not advocating a cartoony and stupid version of embracing capitalism. I see a huge middle ground, where we keep our mission and our ideals, and bring in more money using the conventional tools of the market economy, and then spend that money on the same idealistic and ambitious stuff we’ve always made.

Read the full article here.