Glass: Public Radio All Dressed Up, No Place To Go

Why is their so little innovation in America’s public radio? Ira Glass thinks he knows: “This is exactly the problem in public broadcasting in general and public radio right now. You’ve got people, you’ve got innovative ideas, you’ve got programming executives who know what should be done next — and, literally, there’s no machinery to fund innovation. And so that’s why you get one new show every four or five years.”