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NPR braces for steep cuts amid economic lockdown
MarketWatch ^ | April 16, 2020 | Benjamin Mullin

Posted on 04/17/2020 2:13:45 PM PDT by Drango

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To: Autonomous User

now ain’t that a just a darn shame? /s

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It truly is. Perhaps they should ask the Kennedy Center to share some of the $25 million they just got from the government. /sarc


41 posted on 04/17/2020 3:20:18 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Starboard

Hey, let’s put millions in the next bailout for NPR so they won’t lay off their employees .... Oh, wait....


42 posted on 04/17/2020 3:24:55 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.)
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To: Drango

How we fund this crap is beyond me


43 posted on 04/17/2020 3:29:33 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Drango

Except my daughter works for PBS. If you saw the country music series, she saved their bacon on that.


44 posted on 04/17/2020 3:30:41 PM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: Drango

The government should get out of the television business altogether. They come on tv begging for more anyway.

Let the market determine what shows sink or swim.

Lots of the cooking shows would survive, some would go, lots of their filler shows would go.


45 posted on 04/17/2020 3:32:35 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Drango

But how are they going to get out the Progressive Democrat Socialist talking points before November 2020???


46 posted on 04/17/2020 3:37:14 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The fish wrap media promoted Obama's Benghazi lies in 2012.)
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To: a fool in paradise

This leftist cabal of nitwits should be disbanded. No more taxpayer money to these disgusting, duplicitous, anti-American, pathetic losers.


47 posted on 04/17/2020 3:45:32 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: Drango

Surprised she had time to take herself out of her two fully stocked walk in ice cream freezers.


48 posted on 04/17/2020 3:45:39 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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How about cutting it forever...it’s just a propaganda outlet for the demonrats...it would make Leni Riefenstahl proud...


49 posted on 04/17/2020 3:50:57 PM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: Drango

Every dark cloud has a silver lining...


50 posted on 04/17/2020 3:53:08 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: Drango

WINNING!!!


51 posted on 04/17/2020 3:53:58 PM PDT by rhinohunter (FAUCI MUST GO!!!)
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To: unixfox
-- NPR/PBS are NON ESSENTIAL. --

DHS' Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is in charge of assiging activities to the "essential" and "not essential" categories.

Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce

OTHER COMMUNITY- OR GOVERNMENT-BASED OPERATIONS AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
* Workers who support radio, print, internet and television news and media services, including, but not limited to front line news reporters, studio, and technicians for newsgathering, reporting, and publishing news.

I don't know how entertainment programming is essential. The list does not include entertainment, music, or movie. It does include some broadcast operations.

52 posted on 04/17/2020 3:58:33 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Drango

There should be no more Coronavirus spending unless there’s an equal amount of spending cuts in other areas, like NPR.


53 posted on 04/17/2020 4:00:54 PM PDT by libertylover (Socialism will always look good to those who think they can get something for nothing.)
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To: DAC21

Yes, NPR got Pelosi negotiated fun money from us taxpayers against our will. The dirty......I’ll stop there.

Here’s a plan for NPR and PBS: Provide entertainment and news and information features valuable to the marketplace like every private broadcaster, compete, and prove you give honest value to the people at home.

Can’t do it? Don’t take our tax money for your failure——we have Communist China and Iran to put us down all day already. We don’t need to pay you schmucks to do it.


54 posted on 04/17/2020 4:03:32 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Drango
I use to goof on them during pledge drives and call in with a pledge of .25 cents.

Hey, big spender.

Wish I'd thought of that. Decided to give millions in bailout money this month instead via the bill they passed.

55 posted on 04/17/2020 4:05:49 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Drango

Who will be first to go? The make-up artists at public radio? The limo drivers for all the at-home broadcasters? The chefs at the studio canteens?


56 posted on 04/17/2020 4:05:55 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Drango

They’re renaming one of their shows to “A Few Things Considered”. But, OTOH, they are repackaging “Prairie #StayAtHome Companion”.


57 posted on 04/17/2020 4:22:06 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (The Democrats - Unafraid to burn in Hell.)
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To: Drango

This is a nice win.

JoMa


58 posted on 04/17/2020 4:43:48 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks.)
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To: Drango

Abolish the damn thing

National Propaganda Radio


59 posted on 04/17/2020 4:47:19 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: Raycpa
Learn to code.

Please don't send them to IT.

There are more appropriate lines of work


60 posted on 04/17/2020 5:03:45 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Hillary Clinton: Just like Joe with only half the dementia.)
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