Radio With A Purpose: Bill Siemering On NPR's Original Mission Statement
Bill Siemering, NPR's first director of programming, recognized the network's potential and offered core values that would eventually compose the mission statement.
When I was six years old, I knew that radio was a medium with a purpose. Twice a day, my teacher in a rural school turned on the radio and we listened to the Wisconsin School of the Air and I learned art, music, science and nature studies listening to the radio. This was but one example of the Wisconsin Idea that "the boundaries of the campus are the boundaries of
