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Save NPR!
But please, put PBS out of its misery.
By Mark Oppenheimer
Updated Tuesday, April 5, 2011, at 7:01 AM ET

Illustration by Mark Alan Stamaty. Click image to expand.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.

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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.

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