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Inside a Louisiana NPR station threatened by federal cuts: 'Without it, people would die' NPR cuts could silence one of the only news sources left for rural Louisiana 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. Recently, the House approved President Trump's request to cut funding to NPR. Jeff Ferrell of Red River Radio, a public radio station in Shreveport, Louisiana. CBS News NPR stations like KDAQ are some of the few sources of news left in the rural region. Often referred to as "news deserts" because of the lack of local news organizations, they would suffer the brunt of the Trump administration's planned federal funding cuts to public television and radio. "There are a couple of parishes in Louisiana that have nothing, not even any kind of newspapers," Ferrell told CBS News. "They're empty completely. And it's just like a food desert
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