Posted on 03/24/2023 6:20:13 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NPR said it would stop production on a series of podcasts, including "Invisibilia," an early hit, as part of a broad cutback it signaled was coming last month.
Faced with a projected $30 million decline in revenue, the Washington-based audio and digital-news organization began laying off about 100 employees, or 10 percent of its staff, this week - among the largest reductions in its 53-year history. Managers have set aside three days this week to notify those affected across a number of departments; Thursday was the newsroom's turn to get the bad news.
The programming cutbacks disclosed Thursday appear to reflect NPR's decision to protect its core news programs that remain highly popular on its national network of public-radio affiliates, including its two daily newsmagazines, "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered."
NPR tried to address its revenue issues with about $20 million in cuts in November, mainly through a hiring freeze and travel restrictions. But it said last month that those savings wouldn't be enough.
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Government does not need to finance propaganda outlets.
The Censorship Industrial Complex will be losing a key government paid propaganda outlet.
Get woke, go broke. Yet again.
democrat Woke government propaganda outlets are the largest part of the problem. I await the day when all these woke government propaganda outlets are no longer complete liars. I’ll be waiting a long time though
So horrifically biased.
Still listening to terrestrial FM radio (admittedly makes one a dinosaur), but favorite station has NPR news at the top of every #&*?! hour.
Off goes the radio for 6-7 minutes.
“Washington-based audio and digital-news organization” =
Operation Mockingbird propaganda organ for brainwashing the sheeple.
Well, every administration does it, both R and D, including Reagan. It's far past time it stopped.
Well that’s a good start......
aka All Things Distorted
My NPR robot family member yesterday asked me details of an assertion I made inquisitively. She said, “I didn’t know that. They haven’t said anything about that”
I said no. Joe Scarborough won’t tell you. But he knows.
And by now you have to read between the lines it’s 3 year old news put through a filter at google
I am amazed.
I’m always happy to hear a bad news story about NPR.
There’s no doubt in my mind that most of the layoffs involve far left liberals. But the people who will remain unaffected by the layoffs are the ones who set the tone for NPR. They’ll still be there setting and shaping the editorial direction and institutional bias that makes NPR so hard to listen to or support.
Until those people are gone, I see nothing changing.
I wouldn’t care if they shut down NPR completely and the woke employees all sat down and performed ritualistic seppuku upon themselves. I find the station and the employees repugnant.
I have a cousin who lives in the Seattle area. During 2020, she was completely disconnected about the goings-on right under her nose. I mentioned the takeover of city blocks by miscreant anarchists for weeks, and she denied it, saying it was more equivalent to an “art fair!” I’m sure local media played into her delusion.
NPR has a “news” department?? I don’t think I have ever heard or read anything but propaganda from NPR my entire life. When did this news dept begin?
Reagan set “zero” for the NPR budget; the bozo Rs in the Senate overrode him. Not a dime of taxpayer money should go to finance this propaganda.
Will muppets appear before Congress again begging NPR and NPT funding to “save Sesame Street”?
Curious that NPR, a government funded organization, would lay off people.
Not complaining...
They received several huge endowment fund donations that should have fueled them for generations. Always wondered why they were still on the teet.
FTA: “Faced with a projected $30 million decline in revenue, the Washington-based audio and digital-news organization began laying off about 100 employees, or 10 percent of its staff”
Typical myopic, socialist reaction.
$30MM
100 employees
$30K per employee.
Purging the bottom caste of employees...er...”means of production”.
How very Marxist of them.
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