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Public radio has always been so powerless.
Bob Edwards / Journalist
Powerless
Public Radio
Radio
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Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
Harold Brodkey / Writer
Alive
Public Radio
Radio
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Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.
Juan Williams / Journalist
Cables
Public Radio
Radio
Translate
Cable
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When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.
Ira Glass / Radio Personality
Public Radio
Radio
Advertise
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I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.
Ed Harris / Actor
Public Radio
Radio
Views
National
Presents
Rounded
View
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My first experience on public radio still ranks among the most embarrassing episodes of my relatively short life.
Tucker Carlson / Commentator
Embarrassing
Episodes
Public Radio
Short Life
Ranks
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But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
Ira Glass / Radio Personality
People
Public Radio
Radio
Sincere
Thinking
Time Problems People
One Of The Problems
Sadly
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I'm a journalist, so my friends are journalists: magazines, newspapers, even public radio. Nobody had their kids in public school.
Sandra Tsing Loh / Writer
Magazines
Newspapers
Public Radio
Public School
Journalists
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The radio's pretty much always on, and I also listen to some American podcasts, such as for 'National Public Radio' and 'Newsweek'.
Ben Schott /
Public Radio
Newsweek
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I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.
Sarah Vowell / Author
Conan
Daily Show
People
Public Radio
Radio
Watches
Daily Me People
Younger
Daily
Watch
Mostly
Younger People
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My folks were and are devoted public radio fans, who started listening to 'A Prairie Home Companion' in the 1980s; Garrison and Co. were the permanent headliners of their weekends.
Chris Thile / Mandolinist
Companion
Devoted
Permanent
Prairie
Public Radio
Weekends
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For a long time I was trying to be poppier and younger. I didn't want to be on public radio or do any of that stuff for older people. Then I realized that that is exactly what I listen to.
Teddy Thompson / Musician
Long
Older People
People
Public Radio
Trying
Time Long People
Exactly What
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After college, I did a bunch of different jobs - taught English in Mexico, worked in public radio, worked for a web design company - but there was something about documentaries that really attracted me.
Marshall Curry / Filmmaker
Jobs
Design
Bunch
College
Documentaries
Mexico
Public Radio
Radio
Taught
Attracted
English
Web
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From Public Radio International, there's 'PRI's The World', which is the States looking out at the rest of the globe. Elsewhere, the 'Global News Podcast' from the BBC World Service offers something similar.
David Hepworth /
Elsewhere
Offers
Public Radio
Bbc
Globe
Similar
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations.
Earl Blumenauer / U.s. Representative
Appropriation
Broadcasting
Corporations
Majority
Public Radio
Radio
Stations
Accordance
Annual
Corporation
Directly
Vast
Provide
Statutory
Vast Majority
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One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.
Ira Glass / Radio Personality
People
Public Radio
Radio
Radio Stations
Speech
Stations
World
Myself World People
Myself World Live
Exists
Live Shows
Monthly
Remind
Speeches
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I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It's in Vermont. I don't think I'd be very good at Weed Dating.
Roy Blount, Jr. / Writer
Dating
Garden
Get Together
Matching
Public Radio
Singles
Thinking
Turns
Vermont
Weed
Good Together Keep
Recently
Row
Switch
Two People
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