Posted on 04/17/2020 2:13:45 PM PDT by Drango
National Public Radio is planning significant cost cuts as the coronavirus pandemic hits sponsorship and donation revenue, the public broadcaster's chief executive, John Lansing, said in a memo to staff. NPR is facing a budget deficit of between $30 million and $45 million through its 2021 fiscal year, Mr. Lansing said in the Wednesday memo. Sponsorship money is drying up amid "a very tough marketplace," he wrote, and donations could also take a hit as foundations and individuals "will be thinking hard about gifts as they watch the swings in the values of their own portfolios." NPR will need to cut costs substantially, he wrote. The network's ~snip
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Planning? Planning? WTF? The majority of business owners are already living it. F NPR.
Let’s see. If you send NPR a check for $1.00, will their automated fund raising program spit out multiple letters to you asking for money?
If each letter costs NPR $1.00, times 25 letters, equals $25. Yes? That $1 contribution will cost NPR $24.
now ain’t that a just a darn shame? /s
Good! Arrogant, condescending, greedy mental midgets need to live without a paycheck just like the tens of million of Americans.
I use to goof on them during pledge drives and call in with a pledge of .25 cents.
NPR should be NDR and be defunded
NPR and PBS have the dumbest management ever. All they need to do is to tell the news straight. They don’t have to be conservative, or liberal, just straight out news, and they would have all the funding needed.
Just wait until November, and PBS will again prop up those old geezers who will have hatred running down the sides of their wizened chops.
NPR’s propaganda is as bad as any enemies past or present. Don’t believe me? Take a listen at the hourly news updates and their shows because I have. It is sick.
Since Car Talk is gone, nothing else justifies their existence.
Gee, that’s too bad.
NPR/PBS are NON ESSENTIAL. Shut them the eff down.
I learned more on Sam’s Garage.
Yes lots of bad stuff is getting hit, postponed and cancelled. For this I am grateful.
The gray coronavirus clouds part a little and we glimpse a silver lining.
National Public Radio is planning significant cost cuts
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Its a shame the GOP was never able or willing to do this.
I too found this news to be uplifting. Makes it harder for them to peddle their leftist propaganda.
NPR should be NDR and be defunded
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It should be a top priority of the GOP to shut down this leftist propaganda machine. Sadly it isn’t.
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