Context: Inside the Crisis at NPR
Will NPR exist in its current form in the year 2034?
If NPR does not exist as a wide public radio station network, covering >=90% of America (>98% today), this Resolves NO. This includes privatization of the company.
Listeners are tuning out. Sponsorship revenue has dipped. A diversity push has generated internal turmoil. Can America’s public radio network turn things around?
While NPR still has an audience of about 42 million who listen every week, many of them digitally, that is down from an estimated 60 million in 2020, according to an internal March audience report, a faster falloff than for broadcast radio, which is also in a long-term decline.
“I believe that public radio has five to seven years to reimagine itself before it’s simply unsustainable,” said Eric Nuzum, a former NPR executive and co-founder of the audio consulting and production company Magnificent Noise. “And they can’t take two or three years of that time debating a business model.”
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3.00the title and description appear to be contradictory
title
Do you think NPR has a decade left to live?
description
If NPR does not exist as a wide public radio station network, covering >=90% of America (>98% today), this Resolves NO
Based on the title, shouldn’t No = that it has more than a decade to live?
Does NPR have a decade left
If you vote YES, you think NPR will be around in 2034.
If NPR does not exist as a wide public radio station network, covering >=90% of America (>98% today), this Resolves NO
Taken as written, if you think NPR will lose >=10% of its national coverage, you vote NO.
Maybe easier to parse as the inverse of the statement, “If NPR exists as a wide public radio station network, covering >=90% of America, this Resolves YES”.
Either way, I don’t see a conflict.
The issue is specifically with” left to live”
in the title.
Do you think NPR has a decade left to live?
If your doctor tells you you have a decade left to live what would you conclude?
That sounds like NPR will die in 2034
That’s different than in your description:
Will NPR exist in its current form in the year 2034?