Posted on 03/25/2023 12:32:17 PM PDT by Robwin
National Public Radio was the latest media organization to implement mass layoffs, leading to the cancelation of multiple programs.
NPR itself confirmed Thursday that it had cut 10% of its workforce on Thursday, impacting roughly 100 employees, adding that it tends to roll back the workforce from 1,200 to an estimated 1,050 employees, the "largest reduction in staff since the 2008 recession."
"We literally are fighting to secure the future of NPR at this very moment by restructuring our cost structure. It's that important. It's existential," NPR chief executive John Lansing told NPR's media correspondent David Folkenflik.
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NPR is nothing but a government propaganda machine that needs to be cut off from all public funding.
They will beg Congress for funding. Think of the children!
One wonders if correspondent Folkenflik flicks the folken.
Maybe next year’s budget will bury NPR for good. The beautiful thing about that is that it will cost taxpayers nothing, nada, zip.
Hopefully the cancelled podcasts were about LGBTQCNN,
4 Podcasts? Get my fainting couch...pearls to clutch....it’s over....nothing left to live for!
Hope they didn’t lay off the air talent with the speech impediments. Everywhere in commercial radio you hear people with great voices for radio, which are trained for clarity and proper diction. Only on NPR do you hear voices that are almost unintelligibly garbled and unclear. I kinda like that - it’s the place for challenged voices.
...I think it means that their propaganda welfare is being cut?
It’s a quiet week in Lake Wobegon.
Typical of a gubmint run entity.
Not enough. Taxpayer funded pinko propaganda needs to be eliminated.
NPR’s been folken the taxpayers for years.
Fed.gov spending is up 50% since 2019, every agency’s budgets are much higher. How did NPR not get in on the gravy train?
Should be hit with massive defunding. Only that will cure what’s wrong with NPR.
“NPR’s been folken the taxpayers for years.”
Time to cut off their Schlaussen.
Feel-good story of the day!
The sooner NPR goes away the better.
It takes 30+ people to produce a podcast.
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