NPR didn't mean to erase Sarah Milov from her own book—it just happened
Here’s a bad look: A radio segment by three men on the history of America’s government-fostered tobacco dependence, without once mentioning by name the woman whose book formed the basis for the entire segment.on the glaring oversight in a recent episode of Here & Now, a joint radio show from NPR and WBUR. This particular segment featured an NPR host and regular guests professors Nathan Daniel Beau Connolly and Edward Ayers, who are also hosts of the radio program Backstory.
“Every single word they said was from my book,” Milov told The Lily. “Then I got to the end of a nearly 10-minute segment and did not hear myself credited at all.” What’s more, Milov is up for tenure—“You could say I’m at a critical stage in my career,” she told the Lily, and having her research picked up somewhere on NPR is particularly meaningful right now—while the Backstory professors already have tenure.
“I do not believe that anyone acted out of any sort of malice in this,” Milov told The Lily—instead suggesting that the omission was systemic and partly tied to media’s uncertainty about how to properly cite history. Backstory’s digital editor and strategist, Diana Lynn Williams, told The Lily that it’s fairly common practice to boil information from several sources down, then present the info without specific citations: “If I read five books on the subject, I’m not going to say on air that I read these five people’s books. Historians [on our show] are distilling the scholarship that’s available to them.
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