Inside an NPR station facing funding cuts: "Without it, people would die" (1 Viewer)

[Politics - CBSNews.com]

Before the sun comes up in Shreveport, Louisiana, Jeff Ferrell arrives at the city's National Public Radio station and turns on the lights.

Ferrell is the news director of Red River Radio and its only full-time news employee. He's also the on-air host, field reporter, writer and sound editor. Everything that happens in KDAQ's control room, he does it solo.

From the time he wakes up at 4 a.m., Ferrell spends 15-hour days covering the news in three states. The radio station is part of a network that serves East Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas...

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