primitives discuss cuts at NPR (National Public Radio)

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3639824

CatholicEdHead (1000+ posts)        Wed Dec-10-08 04:09 PM
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NPR Announces Cuts To Staff, Programs

NPR.org, December 10, 2008 · NPR News announced Wednesday that it is canceling two daily radio programs — Day to Day and News and Notes — as part of a broader effort by the company to close a projected budget shortfall of $23 million for its current fiscal year. Overall, NPR will cut 7 percent of its work force and slash expenses further around the company.

"It's a very difficult time for us all, but NPR is not exempt, unfortunately, from the recession that has covered our country in the last several.....blahblahblah.....once I read that the dysmenopausal Nina Totenberg's not among those cut, I lost interest in the story.....

MookieWilson  (1000+ posts)      Wed Dec-10-08 04:09 PM
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1. They had Bill O'Reilly on this morning. Forget them.

ogneopasno  (1000+ posts)      Wed Dec-10-08 04:12 PM
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2. This is very sad. I like Madeleine Brand.

rurallib  (1000+ posts)        Wed Dec-10-08 04:21 PM
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3. On the Talk of America show this afternoon the reason given was softness in corporate underwriting. Or the way I would say it, non commercial NPR was not selling enough commercial time.

NPR has been about as much of a lackey as the other so called M$M. They have been a major hindrance to the diversification of media in this country.

Sadly they are the closest this corporate media country has to an alternative voice.

I would say it is time for them to let Williams and Liason go to FUX full time and let Cokie haunt ABC.

And franksolich would say let Nina Totenberg go to janitorizing Washington's Union Station.

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Some bozo on a non-political board that I browse called NPR Nice Polite Republicans.

 

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