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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...
Prominent commentators--including National Public Radio's Nina Totenberg and The New York Times' Anna Quindlen and Anthony Lewis '48--issued scathing attacks of the book...
...Brock counterattacked last night, accusing Totenberg of "actively misrepresent[ing] or cover[ing] up aspects of the story for political reasons," and alleging that Lewis never actually read the book...
...last year's face-off between Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas were matters like sexual harassment, her truthfulness and his fitness for the Supreme Court. But some Senators seemed no less obsessed with finding out who leaked the secret FBI report of Hill's charges against Thomas to Nina Totenberg of National Public Radio and Timothy Phelps of New York Newsday. The journalists' accounts compelled the Senate Judiciary Committee to schedule the Thomas-Hill hearings...
...part of an ongoing investigation of the leaks, the Senate last week subpoenaed Phelps and Totenberg. Both say they will refuse to disclose who tipped them to the story. That could set the stage for a nasty battle over journalists' First Amendment right to protect their confidential sources. The investigation may also lead to some snarling on the floor of the Senate as suspicion focuses upon aides to Democratic Senators Edward Kennedy and Howard Metzenbaum...