WBUR/NPR

At 10:00 we visited the studios at WBUR. During the tour we were brought to the on-air studios, the cubicles and the mail room. We were shown some of the behind the scenes publishing areas that drive WBUR, the main conference room, and even a live air broadcast, albeit behind a double pane of glass for soundproofing reasons.
At the end of the tour we were brought to the mess hall/lunch room where we asked them questions on how they decided what was news worthy, how they try to remove bias from stories and segments and some of the differences between public and commercial radio stations. Of course we asked our overall driving question "Is the Truth Manufactured?" to which the tour guides answered in a number of ways/perspectives. One from a philosophical point of view that nothing can ever be completely without bias, and even one that separated public and commercial stations due to agendas in commercial that are not present in public radio. Public radio relies heavily on fund raising, so they need highly produced, unbiased stories to keep the listeners with them. To keep the studio alive they need to produce highly produced and meticulously "scanned" pieces for balanced statements.