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Live Interviews Spark Listener Feedback Enlarge this image Stephen Voss/NPR Stephen Voss/NPR Live interviews with newsmakers. And there is the rising number of complaints when live interviews are abruptly cut off for time, which sounds rude and seems to violate NPR's stated aim to provide a forum for civil discourse. Old-timers tell me there's been a cycle at NPR, which had many live interviews years ago and then went through a taped interview phase. In February 2016 NPR started introducing newscasts with the words "live from NPR News," at a time when it had already begun adding more "special coverage," which means live reporting of breaking news. If NPR relied on taped interviews, which take time to turn around because they must be edited, "we would be providing a lot of out-of-date and irrelevant news," he said.