Opinion: Remembering Kevin Klose, former NPR president and broadcasting icon ^58.7%

KUOW Public Radio - By Scott Simon - 4/18/2026, 12:00 PM

Indoctrination 27.9% - Halo Effect 24% - Appeal to Emotion 23.5%

Kevin Klose was silver-haired, silver-tongued, and the gold standard for broadcast journalists. Klose, who was president of NPR from 1998 to 2008, died this week. He was 85. He had covered the Cold War from the Soviet Union for The Washington Post, and used to say he had seen what can happen in societies where people can't hear real... more