They used to have people everywhere, but they basically have given it up. ABC has basically given it up. CNN continues, they do a respectable job, but even that is pretty much headline news rather than in-depth reporting. As I was saying, I really think that these generalizations about the lack of interest in foreign news are wrong. At NPR, we frequently check on the audience we're getting for foreign news.
Foreign news comes out to be the second or third reason why people turn to public radio.
We do four hours of news each day, and 33 percent of it is foreign news. During the time we've been doing this, NPR has kept on growing. We have doubled our listenership in the last decade, and I think our foreign news operation is maybe the only one in the country that's expanding. The people who keep public radio going are the contributors, the listeners. There is an important, sizable demographic slice of this country that wants foreign news, demands it.