Posted on 07/22/2025 8:52:29 AM PDT by Morgana
NPR's top editor has tendered her resignation days after the radio station lost $500million in federal funding for an alleged bias against conservatives.
Edith Chapin, who serves as editor-in-chief and acting chief content officer at National Public Radio, announced her departure on Tuesday.
Chapin told an NPR reporter she quit rather than being fired and that she was not leaving due to the funding cuts.
She also said she handed in her notice two weeks ago ahead of the cuts, which Trump repeatedly promised on the campaign trail.
NPR has long been blasted by conservatives, former listeners, and even former staffers for taking extreme progressive viewpoints on issues pertaining to race and transgenderism in recent years
Supporters of the cuts to federal funding - which also affected PBS - said it was unfair to expect all Americans to subsidize a network with such an isolated worldview.
Katherine Maher, the chief executive of NPR, told Status over the weekend the decision was politically motivated, framing it as one that would be devastating toward rural communities she said relied on public broadcasting from local affiliates.
In her statement to NPR Tuesday, Chapin said Maher was left surprised by her decision, and that she would continue to stay with NPR until October the latest - the same month funding is set to cease to coincide with the next fiscal year.
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No big worries. They’ve got 89 more, exclusively leftist, editors to call on.
“Chapin told an NPR reporter she quit rather than being fired and that she was not leaving due to the funding cuts.”
RIGHT!
WINNING!
It’s amazing what you can do without when money has become scarce......................
We in rural areas never relied on public radio.
I enjoyed it, but Car Talk, A Prairie Home Companion, and other shows, including news, have all gone away or are just so sickly partisan that I last listened nearly nine years ago.
TDS+ will need an editor
Not a single conservative. National Propaganda Radio. Bye, bye.
“Katherine Maher, the chief executive of NPR...”
You’re next, Bitch. GTFO.
Sack up nor, the Red Cross gets ZERO federal funding and look what they’re able to.
I have NO sympathy for these losers.
The federal money was somehow simultaneously a tiny portion of their budget and also crucial to their continued operation.
“would be devastating toward rural communities she said relied on public broadcasting from local affiliates.”
It’s kinda the opposite. I have family who live in very rural areas, and they can’t get ANYTHING, including NPR or PBS. You still have to be “connected” to get that stuff. And if you’re connected to that, then you’re connected to pretty much everything else.
NPR and PBS are so over. They were over 25 years ago, really.
Die commie scum!!!
I haven't seen NPR or PBS labelled as "left wing", or "far left", but at least the Demedia hasn't called conservative allegations, "without evidence".
PBS and NPR should have been sued for in-kind campaign donations to the Democrat party.
Jimi
Crack
Korn
Defunding is the way to go. Nobody will listen to their current garbage if it has to be financed by popular support.
“The federal money was somehow simultaneously a tiny portion of their budget and also crucial to their continued operation.”
You noticed that too?!
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