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MPR and American Public Media employees demand leaders address racial and gender inequities
Minnesota Reformer ^ | Nesterak | Max

Posted on 09/22/2020 1:14:10 PM PDT by Slainte

Employees at Minnesota Public Radio and its parent company American Public Media authored a letter to readers on Tuesday saying they’ve “lost trust in the company’s senior leaders” and have issued a list of demands to improve racial and gender equity.

The demands, listed on a new website called “Transform MPR,” come a week after the public resignation of veteran reporter Marianne Combs and firing of Garrett McQueen, the classical station’s only Black host.

Combs announced she quit on Twitter and accused editors of slow-walking her investigation into allegations that a DJ on the Current had been accused of “sexual manipulation and psychological abuse” by at least eight women. MPR President Duchesne Drew defended the newsroom’s editors for not running the piece, writing in a statement “it does not meet our journalistic standards.” Still, following a wave of public criticism, MPR fired the DJ, Eric Malmberg, the next day.

(Excerpt) Read more at minnesotareformer.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; gender; minnesota; racial; radio
The list of demands is posted at: https://www.transformmpr.org/anti-racism
1 posted on 09/22/2020 1:14:10 PM PDT by Slainte
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To: Slainte

I demand all the demands from liberals be ignored...


2 posted on 09/22/2020 1:21:33 PM PDT by FightforFreedomCA (“We have this obligation, without delay! ~ Donald J. Trump)
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To: Slainte

“Minnesota Public Radio and its parent company American Public Media”

Taxpayer funded organizations? I have a sure cure for that.


3 posted on 09/22/2020 1:22:05 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (Biden's)
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To: Slainte

I agree. All White people at MPR should immediately resign and hand their jobs over to Blacks. That is the only real way they can make amends.


4 posted on 09/22/2020 1:24:28 PM PDT by Obadiah
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To: Slainte

How about the NFL and NBA have racial equity of their dwindling fan base?


5 posted on 09/22/2020 1:25:20 PM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: Slainte

Well, goody for you!


6 posted on 09/22/2020 1:27:16 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Slainte

Minnesota Public Radio? Isn’t that the outfit that was built on the strength of one program created by the now-disgraced sexual harasser and noted uber-Liberal Garrison Keillor?


7 posted on 09/22/2020 1:38:05 PM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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and here i dint think you could get more woke than npr...
8 posted on 09/22/2020 1:40:50 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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“sexual manipulation and psychological abuse”

what does that even mean?

9 posted on 09/22/2020 1:41:22 PM PDT by circlecity
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It means whatever they want it to mean.


10 posted on 09/22/2020 2:11:24 PM PDT by A Voice (As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the end times.)
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To: circlecity

Who knows? It probably means, he made them sad cause he wasn’t down for the cause.


11 posted on 09/22/2020 2:13:43 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: antidemoncrat

Pull all the money out, DEFUND THEM! I dont want my tax dollars going to these cretans


12 posted on 09/22/2020 3:52:09 PM PDT by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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