Remembering Rob Reiner

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It's been in the news a lot lately because federal funding for it was eliminated earlier this year. But it's the fact that NPR is public media that enables fresh air and all of NPR's podcasts to be unique and to be there for you. The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 said that local public media stations should be responsive to their communities. To this day, that's what NPR member stations are doing in so many towns and regions where newspapers have stopped publishing. We're providing news and information.

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