NPR gossip: we know it's out there...

Here at FishbowlNY, we’re assiduously cultivating our radio sources for NPR gossip—mostly because “NPR scandal” seems conceptually like an oxymoron and we want to see a real live one. The closest we’ve seen so far has been the exit of Tavis Smiley, who says that working at NPR under his former salary and budgetary constraints was akin to working “in chains and shackles”, and that “for black kids and brown kids yet unborn, [he] felt [he] had to say no” to his existing compensation package and marketing budget, the size about which we can only speculate.