Public media funding has become so inadequate in supporting local news reporting that it needs a drastic overhaul, a report released Thursday by the Center for Study of Responsive Law concludes.
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader, who founded the Center in 1968, supplies the lengthy, alarm-bell-ringing introduction for the report, which is written by Michael Swerdlow, a researcher for the Center and a Columbia University law student. “This lack of funding for public media, at a time when two newsrooms are closing every week in America, animates the urgencies and proposals in Swerdlow’s report,” Nader writes.
The report asserts that National Public Radio (NPR), the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and local public media stations are failing short in their missions as established by the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.
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