I am very dismayed by NPR's position about links to their site. As a part-time producer for an NPR affiliate, these are not the sort of open, public-minded attitudes with which I choose to be associated. The current corporate (read: closed-minded) structures that reign in public broadcasting today had their fundations (sic) lain during the Reagan era. The company line reeled out by Dvorkin is just simply disengenuous. With pledge drives across the nation impressing upon listeners that their contributions constitute the majority of public radio financing, there is no ice thick enough to support such simple notions of identity ownership, nor journalistic sanctity.

The saw goes that no matter what people say about you, at least they're talking about you, falls through here. Npr commodified is not public radio. If the purpose of radio having a visual web presence is to please suits and docents, then don't bother. If it is to join in in the greater community at work and play while away from their radios then drop your stipulations; you have everything to gain.