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Post by pallister on Apr 19, 2024 0:45:46 GMT
So, Berliner is telling the truth and all 50 other NPR employees are lying? What was it that one poster said about the media?
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Post by pallister on Apr 19, 2024 0:57:28 GMT
So, Berliner is telling the truth and all 50 other NPR employees are lying? NPR only has 50 employees?
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Post by YankeeFan on Apr 19, 2024 1:03:41 GMT
It's very funny to me.
When Christine Blasey Ford brought forward her Rehoboth Beach concocted tale, that had no corroboration, the media decided it was credible, because she had "no incentive to lie."
(Which doesn't even account for how memories work, or for memory implantation.)
But in this case, a lib, who's worked at NPR for 25 years, is a big lying liar, because he said something that no one at NPR wants to own up to.
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Post by YankeeFan on Apr 25, 2024 0:54:06 GMT
I probably listen to NPR more than the average person.
They do many things right, but they wanted to grow their audience with programming that was unlikely to reach their intended audience, without a ton of marketing.
The industry has challenges, but the room for growth is in producing quality, non-partisan, programming, and that's not what they want to do.
Black listeners made up roughly 11 percent of NPR’s audience in the second quarter of 2023, unchanged from the same period in 2020, according to the data. The data further showed that the share of Hispanic listeners went up only two percentage points since 2020, to account for 16 percent of the total audience. One 2020 survey, from the Pew Research Center, found that of the people who named NPR as their main source for political and election news, 75 percent were white, more than any other outlet except Fox News.
NPR’s efforts to diversify itself and its audience didn’t always live up to the expectations of the people who worked there. During a round of layoffs last year, NPR cut “Louder Than a Riot,” a hip-hop podcast that examined Black and queer issues. After that decision, the show’s editor, Soraya Shockley, who had previously worked at The Times, grilled Mr. Lansing during an employee question-and-answer session about why the show had no dedicated budget, pointing out the lack of resources supporting content that furthered diversity, equity and inclusion, or D.E.I.
“How are we supposed to support diverse programming — actually commit to D.E.I., and make it not a folly — when this company seems scared to talk about money when it is not a $30 million deficit?” Shockley asked. In a statement, NPR said the second season of “Louder Than a Riot” had comparable marketing support to other podcasts at the network; Shockley said they were never shown a marketing budget.
Later on the call, after Mr. Lansing urged employees to be more mindful of “civility” in their questions, an NPR employee wrote in an instant-messaging chat accompanying the conversation that the word “civility” is often used as a cudgel against people of color, calling the language choice “racist.”
After the meeting, Shockley filed a human resources complaint against Mr. Lansing, saying his remarks about civility amounted to “dog-whistle racism,” according to a person with knowledge of the exchange. The complaint against Mr. Lansing was referred to an outside law firm, which did not recommend any punitive action.
Mr. Lansing, who announced his retirement last fall, declined to comment on the interaction.
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Post by lcjjdnh on Apr 25, 2024 1:35:36 GMT
I probably listen to NPR more than the average person. They do many things right, but they wanted to grow their audience with programming that was unlikely to reach their intended audience, without a ton of marketing. The industry has challenges, but the room for growth is in producing quality, non-partisan, programming, and that's not what they want to do. Black listeners made up roughly 11 percent of NPR’s audience in the second quarter of 2023, unchanged from the same period in 2020, according to the data. The data further showed that the share of Hispanic listeners went up only two percentage points since 2020, to account for 16 percent of the total audience. One 2020 survey, from the Pew Research Center, found that of the people who named NPR as their main source for political and election news, 75 percent were white, more than any other outlet except Fox News.
NPR’s efforts to diversify itself and its audience didn’t always live up to the expectations of the people who worked there. During a round of layoffs last year, NPR cut “Louder Than a Riot,” a hip-hop podcast that examined Black and queer issues. After that decision, the show’s editor, Soraya Shockley, who had previously worked at The Times, grilled Mr. Lansing during an employee question-and-answer session about why the show had no dedicated budget, pointing out the lack of resources supporting content that furthered diversity, equity and inclusion, or D.E.I.
“How are we supposed to support diverse programming — actually commit to D.E.I., and make it not a folly — when this company seems scared to talk about money when it is not a $30 million deficit?” Shockley asked. In a statement, NPR said the second season of “Louder Than a Riot” had comparable marketing support to other podcasts at the network; Shockley said they were never shown a marketing budget.
Later on the call, after Mr. Lansing urged employees to be more mindful of “civility” in their questions, an NPR employee wrote in an instant-messaging chat accompanying the conversation that the word “civility” is often used as a cudgel against people of color, calling the language choice “racist.”
After the meeting, Shockley filed a human resources complaint against Mr. Lansing, saying his remarks about civility amounted to “dog-whistle racism,” according to a person with knowledge of the exchange. The complaint against Mr. Lansing was referred to an outside law firm, which did not recommend any punitive action.
Mr. Lansing, who announced his retirement last fall, declined to comment on the interaction.I overhear much NPR because wife listens to it. Shockingly (or maybe not so shockingly, but rather obviously) biased, including, as of late, Israel-Palestine issues.
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