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Uri Berliner is under contract with NPR and is constrained from competing with NPR by appearing on other news content without prior written consent from NPR. He violated that and was suspended for five days without pay along with being warned that if he did it again he'd be let go.Anyway, to me this feels a lot like punishing a whistleblower. Anyone have any more insight?
Science Friday, This American Life and Radiolab are just as good now as they were decades ago. Not sure WTF you're talking about? Radio West still pretty good, too.Uri Berliner is under contract with NPR and is constrained from competing with NPR by appearing on other news content without prior written consent from NPR. He violated that and was suspended for five days without pay along with being warned that if he did it again he'd be let go.
I really dislike the idea that contacts can be ignored if the reason is good enough. If you sign a contract with a non-disclosure or non-disparagement provision and were duly compensated then STFU. We all know NPR is leftist garbage that doesn't hold a candle to the standards they had in decades past. Uri Berliner may be a truth teller but he is a truth teller that was under contract and he deserves to get suspended for five days without pay for violating a thing he promised to abide by.
Not sure where to post this but it feels like a good discussion topic. Maybe we can have a thread to post news pieces that don't necessarily fit elsewhere.
Anyway, to me this feels a lot like punishing a whistleblower. Anyone have any more insight?
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The right wing politicians are mobilizing to make NPR independent, as in cut their government funding so they aren't being financed by the state to produce political propaganda for the Democrat party such as the disinformation effort to convince the public the President's son's laptop full of incriminating evidence was fake when it clearly was actually Hunter Biden's real laptop. If the Democrats want a media outlet to parrot their talking points then they should call up and donate to keep NPR alive but the taxpayers shouldn't be forced at the point of a gun to support it. NPR should be totally, completely, absolutely independent from the state with zero dollars and zero cents coming from government sources in terms of their revenue.The far right is mobilising against independent non partisan media and public media.
Tell me you don’t use NPR without telling me you use NPR.right wing politicians are mobilizing to make NPR independent, as in cut their government funding so they aren't being financed by the state to produce political propaganda for the Democrat party
Tell me you are so out of step with America that your personal political bias is off the chart without telling me you're off the chart.Tell me you don’t use NPR without telling me you use NPR.
The right wing politicians are mobilizing to make NPR independent, as in cut their government funding so they aren't being financed by the state to produce political propaganda for the Democrat party such as the disinformation effort to convince the public the President's son's laptop full of incriminating evidence was fake when it clearly was actually Hunter Biden's real laptop. If the Democrats want a media outlet to parrot their talking points then they should call up and donate to keep NPR alive but the taxpayers shouldn't be forced at the point of a gun to support it. NPR should be totally, completely, absolutely independent from the state with zero dollars and zero cents coming from government sources in terms of their revenue.
That would be the difference between us. I want NPR to be independent from the influence provided by government funding while you want people you don't like to put up against a wall and shot.The rights not interested in independence, they want collaborators and compliance. In a better time in our history people who supported this **** and acted in the ways that Trump would encourage people to act were treated very differently. I and millions of others consider them to be traitors, in the good old day these morally bankrupt scumbags would be put up against a wall and shot and that's exactly what they deserve.
Damn... thats hardcore.I and millions of others consider them to be traitors, in the good old day these morally bankrupt scumbags would be put up against a wall and shot and that's exactly what they deserve.
“The purpose of propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human” - Aldous HuxleyThat would be the difference between us. I want NPR to be independent from the influence provided by government funding while you want people you don't like to put up against a wall and shot.
There should be an option to exclude certain posters from crapping all over threads. You asked a good question and I’m not sure you’re getting very good answers. I guess we can’t expect much when trolls can run rampant as they currently do.Not sure where to post this but it feels like a good discussion topic. Maybe we can have a thread to post news pieces that don't necessarily fit elsewhere.
Anyway, to me this feels a lot like punishing a whistleblower. Anyone have any more insight?
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I guess I wasn't responding to your question directly... It's less "punishing a whistleblower" and more like disciplining a cult member that I guess decides he wants to be excommunicated.Not sure where to post this but it feels like a good discussion topic. Maybe we can have a thread to post news pieces that don't necessarily fit elsewhere.
Anyway, to me this feels a lot like punishing a whistleblower. Anyone have any more insight?
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