Episode 229 • • 22:56 - 28:35
229: Eggs & Poop
PBS Honesty, Audience Reaction Staging, NPR Underwriting
The hosts challenge the perceived integrity of PBS and NPR, playing a clip of NPR's CEO discussing corporate underwriting as a form of advertising. An eyewitness account describes a PBS taping where the audience was instructed to perform "reaction shots" of laughter and applause to be edited in later.