(video) NPR's Problems with Money, "Ownership" and Politicalization, Former CEO Speaks

(video) NPR's Problems with Money, "Ownership" and Politicalization, Former CEO Speaks
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VIEQUES, PR -- Getting just one dollar of public funding makes a news organization "fair game" for attacks and NPR should be weaned off public funding eventually says Vivian Schiller the former CEO of NPR whose tenure was ended over a political controversy.

Another flash point for NPR is the money raised by member stations during pledge drives which empowers many contributors which she likens to members of a "co-op" she tells interviewer Jason Pontin, editor in chief of MIT's Technology Review, on stage at the Beet.TV Executive Retreat last weekend.

Schiller is Chief Digital Officer of NBC News.

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