Now Juan is discovering what we knew all along: NPR is a hopelessly liberal taxpayer funded institution with NO courage, sense of humor or class. NPR should have been cut loose from public funds years ago for sins against the public good. It chose hard left opinions, friends and donors, and the steamroller of sneering liberal crap kept rolling for 4 decades.
NPR wouldn’t last a month in the free market. it should die a grisly death along with the National Endowment for the Arts.
ps: I’m an art lover.
There is a second part to this story which we will eventually figure out. NPR is in serious financial jeopardy. While congress has kept it’s payments at a general trend...at some point, the NPR management folks (probably in the 1990s) started to up the salary level of management and journalists. I read an article last summer that dealt with this growing issue of a structure that would be unable to pay keep up with the trend.
The article rattled off ten NPR journalists that were pulling in a significant income. Toss in their health care program (which is 4-star), their TSP (401k matching), and the other pluses...and the organization is sinking with the big-name journalists.
The way I see it...if they could find any NPR journalist with a reason to terminate...then they’d gladly dump the guy. As for folks hoping to get hired up to replace Juan...forget it. They will promote from within and the new guy will get nothing near Juan’s old salary. I’ll predict two or three others are terminated in the same fashion by spring of next year.