On Air: The Triumph and Tumult of NPR
engrossing and entertaining ... Oney, a veteran journalist, deftly captures the exuberant, often countercultural ethos that defined NPR’s creation in 1970 ... On Air is a major work of media history ... Still, a book this size would have benefited from less gossip and more critical analysis.
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Lively and engaging ... Oney’s account of how all this developed has plenty of color and sweep ... Oney’s best reporting involves his reconstruction of a bruising soap opera involving five women who cycled through NPR’s Baghdad bureau in the early years of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq ... It’s not entirely clear what all the madness amounted to...but it sure makes for some eye-popping reading.
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Oney’s fleet-footed storytelling and immersive prose bring to life the network’s colorful personalities. The result is an entertaining window into the creative but rancorous scene at one of journalism’s most hallowed institutions.
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