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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The old cowboy said, “When your horse is dead...get off”.
As a kid (mid-70s)...I found the radio channel and listened to an hour or two per week (before they went massively to news-BS). Probably to the 1990s...they attempted some ‘balance’...with the 2004 election cycle....starting to go far-left. I haven’t listened to NPR since 2011.
I remember heading out to my car for Radio Reader, with Dick Estell.
I’m thankful to have written and gotten back an email from him, before he passed.
NPR and PBS are the most antiAmerian news stations in the World.
Did Edith just stifle herself?
Just asking for Meathead.
“devastating toward rural communities”
They sure helped Texas....
Edith... We don’t care.
To paraphrase the late GOP Speaker of the House, Everett Dirksen, “Five hundred million here, five hundred million there—pretty soon you're talking real money.”
She’ll be replaced by Burt N Ernie...😀
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