To the NEA, News-Laden NPR is Making a Classical Mistake

TO THE NEA, NEWS-LADEN NPR IS MAKING A CLASSICAL MISTAKE
[SOURCE: Washington Post 11/12, AUTHOR: Marc Fisher]
A new report from the National Endowment for the Arts blasts public radio, saying it fails to fulfill its obligation to provide music that commercial stations won't touch. The NEA says public radio -- once dominated by classical, jazz and other minority forms of music -- is retreating ever further from that mission, choosing to focus on news and talk. National Public Radio pleads guilty to using its new resources to build a stronger news operation, but rejects the NEA's notion that public radio is abandoning its cultural mission. Rather, NPR maintains, it plans to use the Web and other emerging technologies to introduce a new generation of listeners to music you can't hear on the radio.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/10/AR200611...
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