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October 15, 2003

Response from NPR Ombudsman

When I posted the previous entry about the NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin's response to questions raised about part of a story being cut, I also sent an e-mail to him asking the same question - and he responsded:

Dear Kriselda Jarnsaxa,

It was edited for time. The first edition was done live and ran over the
allotted length.

Rgds.

While some may think that's a bit of a "lame" excuse for cutting an important part of a story, I still remember how much fun it could be trying to figure out how to fit all the news I wanted to include into the amount of time available when I was at my old church's station. I found I either had to cut a lot of information I wanted to include or read the news really fast - and reading news really fast isn't usually the best choice if you want to be understood.

Posted by thorswitch at October 15, 2003 04:15 PM

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