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Hi, it's Terry Gross.

Before we start the show today,

I want to say a few words

about public media.

It's been in the news a lot

because federal funding for it

was completely 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. Public media was created to represent and serve

diverse audiences, including underrepresented communities throughout America, enabling us to better hear and understand each

other, and in the words of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, to offer programs for, quote,

instructional, educational, and cultural purposes, unquote. At NPR, we still believe in these

core commitments, but the loss of federal funding that

the Act provided for is creating major challenges for NPR and all public radio stations. As we move

into this uncharted future together, we know that you will not let the service that has been

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