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culturebox Save NPR! But please, put PBS out of its misery. By Mark Oppenheimer Updated Tuesday, April 5, 2011, at 7:01 AM ET It has been a bad time for the network of a million tote bags. In October, NPR commentator Juan Williams was fired for saying that people in Muslim garb on airplanes frightened him. Earlier this month, NPR fundraiser Ron Schiller, caught in James O'Keefe's sting operation, called Republicans "anti-intellectual" and Tea Partiers racist. (Although it soon became clear that O'Keefe had edited his tape to exaggerate Schiller's comments.) Then his non-consanguineous boss Vivian Schiller was forced out. And then House Republicans voted to defund NPR. I'll leave it to others to decide whether NPR needs better leadership. NPR's own ombudsman makes that case pretty well. But whatever its leadership's failings, NPR itself is not troubled or failing (and I'm not just saying that because I have been an NPR commentator, and on occasional, an unpaid host). To the contrary, NPR is the most resounding media success story of the past 40 years. To continue reading, click here. Mark Oppenheimer is the author of Wisenheimer: A Childhood Subject to Debate, which is just published in paperback. He won the 2010 Hiett Prize and writes the Beliefs column for the New York Times. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE \| READ MESSAGES Also In Slate Shafer: Who Cares About Katie Couric? Anchors and Evening News No Longer Matter. Are These Anti-Bullying Videos Unwittingly Promoting Suicide? How Oklahoma Republicans Are Using a Sharia Ban To Pummel Democrats	Advertisement
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culturebox Save NPR! But please, put PBS out of its misery. By Mark Oppenheimer Updated Tuesday, April 5, 2011, at 7:01 AM ET It has been a bad time for the network of a million tote bags. In October, NPR commentator Juan Williams was fired for saying that people in Muslim garb on airplanes frightened him. Earlier this month, NPR fundraiser Ron Schiller, caught in James O'Keefe's sting operation, called Republicans "anti-intellectual" and Tea Partiers racist. (Although it soon became clear that O'Keefe had edited his tape to exaggerate Schiller's comments.) Then his non-consanguineous boss Vivian Schiller was forced out. And then House Republicans voted to defund NPR. I'll leave it to others to decide whether NPR needs better leadership. NPR's own ombudsman makes that case pretty well. But whatever its leadership's failings, NPR itself is not troubled or failing (and I'm not just saying that because I have been an NPR commentator, and on occasional, an unpaid host). To the contrary, NPR is the most resounding media success story of the past 40 years. To continue reading, click here. Mark Oppenheimer is the author of Wisenheimer: A Childhood Subject to Debate, which is just published in paperback. He won the 2010 Hiett Prize and writes the Beliefs column for the New York Times. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE \| READ MESSAGES Also In Slate Shafer: Who Cares About Katie Couric? Anchors and Evening News No Longer Matter. Are These Anti-Bullying Videos Unwittingly Promoting Suicide? How Oklahoma Republicans Are Using a Sharia Ban To Pummel Democrats	Advertisement
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