Pondering NPR at 40

Just in case you weren’t listening, yesterday was NPR’s 40th anniversary. Four decades ago the radio network went live just as protests over the Vietnam conflict were really boiling over. It was a tumultuous time, but a fortuitous one to launch a news network. In the LA Times, author Steve Oney, who’s currently writing a book about the history of NPR, writes an op-ed about the past 40 years of NPR and the state of the network today.