Merciful heavens, the things some public radio stations have to do to get people to become members!
Good idea or bad? WNYC in New York is using a “the next round’s on you” theme in its current pledge drive. Get it? To drive home the point, public radio stars pretend — we think they’re pretending — to be drunk.
I’m fairly speechless here.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins