Download or read book Conflicting Communication Interests in America written by Tom McCourt and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 1999-10-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McCourt sees public broadcasting as increasingly under siege as the marketplace undermines public goods and services and as politics and culture are beset by fragmentation. In this first full-length scholarly examination of National Public Radio, he contrasts NPR's mission and its practices.