NPR's sad state.

• Author: Rylaarsdam, Katharine W.
• Position: Letters to the Editor - Letter to the Editor

The fact that Tavis Smiley (Interview, by Leah Samuel, March issue) is a black "first" at NPR and PBS is a sorry commentary on NPR and PBS. The main reason I no longer get much of my news from NPR is that it is so lost in its own white, suburban, middle class dream world it has lost the capacity to report...