Facing a $30 million budget shortfall, National Public Radio – otherwise known as NPR – announced layoffs a week ago to the tune of roughly 100 staffers (10 percent of their employees) as well as the cancellation of four of its podcasts. A fifth podcast avoided the chopping block but will see its production and airtime greatly reduced. Some vacant positions were also cut, while intermittently other employees have been posting on social media that they were leaving. “We literally are fighting to secure the future of NPR at this very moment by restructuring our cost structure. It’s that important,” the news outlet’s CEO chief John Lansing proclaimed when discussing the decisions during an interview. “It’s existential.” Understandably, conservatives who have long had legitimate complaints about NPR’s hard-left bias and how that bias is routinely reflected in their partially-taxpayer funded “reporting” would disagree on the “importance” of salvaging the public radio network, which debuted in 1970, three years after “the 1967 Public Broadcasting Act created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).” But in the aftermath of the news of the layoffs, things appear to
have deteriorated even further at the struggling network, with
infighting galore reportedly going on and some staffers going full woke during
This statement was repeated later on during the meeting and it … did not go over well, according to Bloomberg News:
NPR blames its financial problems in part on advertising slowdowns in the Biden economy, something that has been felt across the board on many media platforms. But I can’t help but wonder if a sharp drop in viewership along with growing distrust in the media as an institution in general has also played a role in NPR’s woes. Or, as conservatives call it, “go woke, go broke.” I mean, after all, news outlets can only insult someone’s intelligence so much before those readers and viewers – including critics who still occasionally watch and read them – say enough’s enough and tune in elsewhere. NPR’s viewership heavily declined during the pandemic, and from the looks of things it hasn’t come back. Instead of obsessing over wokeness and anti-American programming, perhaps NPR should look take a long, hard look in the mirror and do some deeper soul-searching along the way. Because they might at long last see what the rest of us do, and finally realize what kind of changes they really should be making in their programming – starting with the “deprogramming” of their remaining staff members before it’s too late. |
Saturday, April 1, 2023
Report: Woke Struggle Sessions Underway at NPR as the Cookie Crumbles
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