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For ideas that illuminate the rage out there journalists have to go outside their comfort zones, including the "liberal" zones in press thought. They have to find other sources of insight, and listen to explanations that may at first sound alien. Here are a few from the New Criterion... "At a public meeting in Jackson, Miss., last week, a listener to NPR programs on Mississippi Public Broadcasting asked me if I had detected a sense of outrage growing in the country," wrote Jeffrey Dvorkin, ombudsman for NPR (March 8). "If my inbox is anything to go by, I certainly have."...

NPR Ombudsman By Jeffrey A. Dvorkin   The NPR Ombudsman's Year in Review NPR.org, December 22, 2004 · December is a traditional time of year for clear-eyed assessments, quiet reflections and thoughtful stock-taking. It's also a time to look hopefully toward the year to come.So looking back on NPR's 2004 and searching for a single adjective to describe it: from where I sit as NPR's ombudsman, tumultuous is the first word that comes to mind.What a Year!NPR News faced huge journalistic challenges. Perhaps its largest ever: trying to cover war abroad and political divisions at home. NPR's task: assessing...

Can NPR journalists express their personal opinions when they speak or write for other media? That's the question asked by some media critics and many listeners. They object whenever NPR reporters appear to reveal their opinions on the issues of the day. NPR encourages its journalistic staff to speak in public. But they are expected to hold to the same high standards when they appear in other media as they would in their regular duties on NPR. A number of NPR journalists appear in other media. Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr's essays first heard on NPR often appear as a...