Word: npr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Washington-based radio network, which in the past few years has been hit with a series of racial- and sexual-discrimination lawsuits. "They've got a free ride over the years because they have this public image of being diverse," says Lynne Bernabei, whose law firm has represented 14 NPR clients. But NPR president Delano Lewis, one of the network's few high-ranking blacks, while acknowledging that there are problems, insists that "this place is no different from any other [work]place...
Murmurings of trouble have emanated from the network since the 1980s, when White House reporter Mara Liasson threatened to file a sex-discrimination case against NPR but eventually settled out of court. A 1988 pay-equity study showed that women, even such NPR bright lights as Nina Totenberg and Cokie Roberts, were consistently paid less than men. In 1995 Katie Davis, then a contract reporter for Morning Edition and the temporary host of Weekend All Things Considered, filed a $1.2 million suit charging that the network failed to promote her to a permanent position and paid her less than...
Last year Susan Klein, a recording engineer, filed a $600,000 suit alleging that NPR discriminated against her after she was found to have a precancerous condition. The other pending suits: one by a librarian, filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act; and two Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaints by black technicians...
...recent New Yorker review, Anthony Lane describes the movie Crash as "bare-assed philosophy." NPR commentator David Sedaris' new book of humorous essays, Naked, delivers glimpses of, so to speak, a philosophy of the bare...
Sedaris, a small, nervous man of forty, can afford to look back. With a three-book contract with Little, Brown and a month-long publicity tour underway, plus a steady income from NPR, he says he won't write again "until I'm completely broke...