AIR Director: NPR Serves 'Liberal, Highly Educated Elite,' Wonders How

March 11th, 2011 1:31 PM
Sue Schardt, director of the Association of Independents in Radio and a non-board member of NPR's Distribution/Interconnect Committee, has a firm grasp on arguments against the organization receiving federal funding. Criticisms of NPR "do have some legitimacy," she noted, and "we must, as a starting point, take on board some of this criticism." Scardtnoted during the board's Feburary 25 "…