NPR = Nina, Plagiarizing Reporter.
Thanks...I didn't know about this...googled her and here is some more info on the background....http://www.cjr.org/year/95/4/plagiarize.asp
A classic example is Nina Totenberg, the well-known, enterprising reporter for National Public Radio who has made a name for herself disclosing Washington's dirty secrets. Totenberg was fired for plagiarism when she worked as a staff writer for the now-defunct National Observer, a fact disclosed by Al Hunt in a Wall Street Journal column during the Clarence Thomas hearings some twenty years later. In 1972, Totenberg simply took several paragraphs and verbatim quotes from a Washington Post report about former House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, who was about to become majority leader, and dropped them into her own story about him, without attributing a single word to the Post. "I was in a hurry. I used terrible judgment," she told CJR. "The fact I used so many direct quotes obligated me morally to credit the Post. I should have been punished. I have a strong feeling that a young reporter is entitled to one mistake and to have the holy bejeezus scared out of her to never do it again."