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(Pacifica Radio) WBAI-FM Lays Off Most of Staff (New York)
New Ypork Times ^
| August 11, 2013
| BEN SISARIO
Posted on 09/01/2013 7:29:20 PM PDT by carlo3b
... In a tearful on-air announcement on Friday, Summer Reese, the interim executive director of the Pacifica Foundation, which owns WBAI, said that after talks with SAG-Aftra, the union that represents broadcasting talent, we will be laying off virtually everyone whose voice you recognize on the air, effective Monday.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: defundnpr; elections; layoffs; liberalmedia; liberals; liberaltalkradio; obama; pacifica; radio
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Another leftwing station going down in flambes.. sniffff
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posted on
09/01/2013 7:29:20 PM PDT
by
carlo3b
To: carlo3b
Maybe they can get a job at ESPN
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posted on
09/01/2013 7:31:30 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: carlo3b
They’re probably all racists anyway.
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posted on
09/01/2013 7:33:04 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: carlo3b
They will all reserface as regime czars.
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posted on
09/01/2013 7:33:13 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: carlo3b
Lie long enough and even the stupid finally catch on. American media is on the ropes because it shot all its credibility worshiping political Leftists.
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posted on
09/01/2013 7:33:56 PM PDT
by
txrefugee
To: carlo3b
FIXED IT
They will all resurface as regime czars.
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posted on
09/01/2013 7:34:02 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: carlo3b
I think there was a related thread a few weeks ago. Public funding was even cut off.
lol
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posted on
09/01/2013 7:35:27 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: BenLurkin
Why do liberals need Pacifica when they have ABC NBC CBS CNN MSNBC, etc....
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posted on
09/01/2013 7:36:38 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: carlo3b; Flick Lives
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posted on
09/01/2013 7:37:16 PM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: carlo3b
What does SAG/AFTRA have to do with it. Was the union asking for raises from a station that can’t pay the rent?
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posted on
09/01/2013 7:41:43 PM PDT
by
VerySadAmerican
(".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
To: carlo3b
LOL.....
they are constantly having these telethons where they beg for money...me and a handful of guys in the office would use the office phone system at night to tie up their lines...guess it worked...
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posted on
09/01/2013 7:44:24 PM PDT
by
God luvs America
(63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
To: dfwgator
Pacifica has served its purpose, re-electing Obama.
Pacifica got a huge influx of cash from rich libs about two years ago. Now the money is running out, and the rich libs aren’t ponying up anymore.
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posted on
09/01/2013 7:56:40 PM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
To: carlo3b
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posted on
09/01/2013 7:58:40 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: carlo3b
Yay.
Ding dong the witch is dead...
This station played Arabic music the afternoon of 9/11/01.
To show their solidarity with and to understand the motivation of the perps.
To: carlo3b
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posted on
09/01/2013 8:04:18 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: carlo3b
I used to listen to this station daily when I was a teenage moonbat.
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posted on
09/01/2013 8:06:26 PM PDT
by
Catmom
(We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
To: tcrlaf
So, they basically ran out of OPM.
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posted on
09/01/2013 8:07:07 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: carlo3b
Ahh yes. Another handful of proud AFTRA members who can’t find work.
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posted on
09/01/2013 8:07:18 PM PDT
by
golux
To: carlo3b
BAI was fun to listen to in the late ‘70’s
Revolution don’t pa the bills though
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posted on
09/01/2013 8:10:52 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
(THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
To: carlo3b
had to pay for the Debbie i mean Amy Downer show somehow...
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posted on
09/01/2013 8:12:12 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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