NPR Kicks Fox News Ass

There is a very thoughtful post on Mashable that ventures the idea that NPR is the future of news.

I am a big NPR junkie and it is often the one charitable donation I make annually even when I can’t afford it.

Mashable lays out a number of strong reasons for NPR’s success in the digital age and I recommend you head over and read the post.

What leapt out at me was this:

Their 26.4 million weekly listeners are 11 times more than the daily circulation of USA Today, and greater than 9 times more than the prime time viewership of the #1 cable news channel in the US, Fox News. They have 860 local stations in their member network and operate 38 news bureaus around the world — 18 in foreign markets, which is greater than any other news gathering organization.

I find this statistic extremely encouraging, not just because it shows more of the nation is being informed via a non-profit news organization than a clearly biased and corporately controlled conglomerate but because it clearly demonstrates that there are more ways to deliver quality news to the masses besides the out-dated and inflexible newspaper.

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