NPR CEO on the struggle to fund public news

NPR received traditionally about 1% of our budget directly from the federal government, but we have just 1% but we have a network of around 250 member stations which received as much as 70% in rural parts of the country and so we're waiting to see what some of the fallout will be for those stations. We have projections. We're concerned about this and we're looking at how we can butress some of their work by cutting fees to them and thinking about how to make, you know, a dollar stretch a little bit further ...