Word: npr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EVEN AFTER the flurry of news stories over the past several months tracking the financial perils of the federally funded public radio network. NPR is hardly a household word. Yet the ranks of the uninitiated had been shrinking and, or most, to know NPR was it love...
...station added programs and personnel, costs swelled as well. By itself, this might not have posed a serious problem. Unfortunately, just as NPR was gearing up to take the airwaves by storm, a certain Californian was readying himself for a personal assault on the nation's capital and almost everything in it. In the midst of its expansion. NPR found its funding slashed, with deeper cuts planned for coming years...
Drummond recommended that people should leave while they can. He himself is departing NPR today to teach radio journalism at the University of California
...NPR news correspondent William Drummond said it was "not bloody likely" that the CPB loan means the network can service its financial problems...
...cannot go into an organization, five one-third of the work force, drive up to the guardrail of bankruptcy, and pretend that nothing has happened," Drummond explained, adding that he worries that NPR's shows will he affected by "the primal scare that has been dealt the stall in the past two weeks...