PUBLIC VIEWPOINTS
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Jennifer Ferro on content strategy, public-private ecosystem design. Explore 3 viewpoints by topic, with evidence from 1 source.
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KCRW does not assume that being public radio means it must be boring.
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We don’t assume, oh, we’re public radio, so we should be a little bit boring.
Ferro contrasts broccoli with chocolate cake and says KCRW tries to lean toward the chocolate cake.
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There’s the broccoli and the chocolate cake. We try to lean toward the chocolate cake.
Ferro points to bookstores and libraries as an example of public and private options coexisting, with people choosing based on their needs.
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Yeah, definitely. And I also think that there are lots of things in the world that have public parts and private parts. There’s bookstores and there are libraries, and both coexist really nicely, and people make decisions based on what they need.
I don’t know. I don’t want to be a big advocate of government regulation necessarily, but I do feel that our society is better when we have spaces that are designed just to make people’s lives better. That’s it.
Statements are ordered by the original source publication date; differences in wording do not establish a change of position.