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As we rattle the tin cup this week, encouraging you to contribute to North Country Public Radio, a new analysis of public radio in The New York Review of Books from our long-time friend (and listener), Bill McKibben. Check it out here. Bill manages to illuminate most of the highlights of our public media world, as well as putting his finger on our weaknesses and the challenges we face.

A great time for this article as NPR begins its 40th anniversary year. By the way, you may want to contribute to NCPR and choose the NPR 40th anniversary hard cover book, This Is NPR, or the 4-cd collection of selected “driveway moments” from NPR’s 4-decade history. You can make that contribution at www.ncpr.org — if you haven’t already donated some money.

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