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...plight of NPR has captured public sympathy at a time when unemployment and business failures are words of the day, it is because the network has stood for something all too rare in the commercial media quality. That meant broadcasting the SALT talks in their entirety, or Cyrus Vance's Harvard Commencement address--not events a lot of people wanted to hear, but something a few listeners wanted to hear very badly, and would have been unable to had NPR not broadcast them. That's not the kind of programming decision that shoves a network into the black...
...WASN'T a problem I particularly worried about until last summer when I worked as an intern at NPR. But witnessing firsthand the devotion that made the network what it is has made its current difficulties all the more distressing. It was a place of tremendous energy and enthusiasm. On every level, reporters, producers, technicians, people seemed to take a real pride in their work. Staying after hours to make a piece that much better was par for the course. Once a stopover for would-be commercial journalists, NPR had become state-of-the-art radio and a place people...
...before a payroll deadline threatened to close down NPR. "Morning Edition" executive producer Jay Kernis told The Washington Post "My people leave told me they're coming in Friday even if they don't get paid. They're coming in to work if they aren't locked...
...last-minute $9.1 million loan agreement with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting salvaged the network's immediate crisis, but NPR's future seems uncertain at best. The loan, together with $2.2 million pledged in a recent three-day fundraiser (the first ever for NPR) and additional funds from local member stations, will go a long way to meeting immediate debts, but won't necessarily restore funding for programming, or restore workers who have been laidoff...
Since January, NPR has fired close to 150 employees and cut back most of its arts programming. And many fear that even the shows that have survived in name may lose its spirit of quality that made them popular. Both the daily news shows have lost both funding and employees staffers agree that the quality has dropped, particularly during the height of uncertainty about the station's future last month. One stringer tells of a producer who gets angry when he brings in story ideas, because the station can't afford to buy them. Other stringers have stopped submitting pieces...