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NPR Freezes Hiring, Cuts Budget After Sharp Drop In Sponsorship Revenue

NPR will be forced to cut at least $10 million to its budget and hold back hiring over a decline in sponsorship revenue, their chief executive announced in a memo Wednesday.

The network’s chief executive, John Lansing, told staff that the company will come to a near “total hiring freeze” to avoid layoffs and to compensate for the $20 million decline in sponsorship revenue, NPR reported. The outlet will also be forced to curtail non-essential travel and discretionary spending.

NPR Freezes Hiring, Cuts Budget After Sharp Drop In Sponsorship Revenue
 
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CNN Bloodbath: Network fires Chris Cillizza and correspondents Alison Kosik, Alex Field, host Martin Savidge and Robin Meade - AND Scraps HLN's Live Programming in ruthless round of layoffs

The latest round of layoffs at CNN has hit some of the network's biggest names.

Political analyst Chris Cillizza, 46, who has been covering national politics, the White House and Congress for the cable giant since 2017, after coming over to the network from The Washington Post, was among those who were let go this week, Variety reported.

Business correspondent Alison Kosik, 51, who covers the New York Stock Exchange and has been at the network since 2007 was nixed. She earns an average annual salary of between $100,000 and $145,143.

Alexandra Field, 31, who covers major breaking news events for CNN and CNN International, and has reported from more than 20 countries was dismissed. She was working from the network's Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong. She earns an estimated annual salary of $144,167.

Martin Savidge, 64, an anchor and correspondent for CNN based in the network's world headquarters in Atlanta, who returned to the network in 2011 was let go.

Mary Ann Fox, Vice President of Northeast News, who oversaw the editorial direction and day-to-day operations of the New York Bureau, and had been at CNN since 2014, was also sacked this week. It's estimated that her yearly salary is $1 million.

The cable news giant also scrapped all of HLN's live programming, including longtime host Robin Meade, 53, who was with the weekday Atlanta-based morning show for more than 21 years. It is estimated that her annual salary is $3 million, making her one of the highest paid female anchors in the business.

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The cable news giant also scrapped all of HLN's live programming, including longtime host Robin Meade, 53, who was with the Atlanta-based morning show for more than 21 years. She was one of the highest paid anchors

CNN fires Chris Cillizza, Robin Meade, Alison Kosik, Alex Field, Martin Savidge, Mary Ann Fox | Daily Mail Online
 
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Our media in a nutshell

Propaganda - Goebbels' Principles

"Hitler's Basic Principles
These principles are abstracted from Jowett & O'Donnell.

  • Avoid abstract ideas - appeal to the emotions.
  • Constantly repeat just a few ideas. Use stereotyped phrases.
  • Give only one side of the argument.
  • Continuously criticize your opponents.
  • Pick out one special "enemy" for special vilification.

Goebbels' Principles of Propaganda
When reading these propaganda principles, keep in mind that they were applied in wartime (WWII) and involve issues that don't arise otherwise. It's a long list, but Goebbels was dealing with the complexity of an all-out war. While reading them you may realize that some of the principles are generally applicable and not limited to wartime. Some might be quite familiar today. It is interesting to note that Goebbels' principles derive from Hitler's own ideas of propaganda.

  1. Propagandists must have access to intelligence concerning events and public opinion.
  2. Propaganda must be planned and executed by only one authority.
    1. It must issue all the propaganda directives.
    2. It must explain propaganda directives to important officials and maintain their morale.
    3. It must oversee other agencies' activities which have propaganda consequences.
  3. The Propaganda consequences of an action must be considered in planning that action.
  4. Propaganda must affect the enemy's policy and actions.
    1. By suppressing propagandistically desirable material which can provide the enemy with useful intelligence.
    2. By openly disseminating propaganda whose contents or tone causes the enemy to draw the desired conclusions.
    3. By goading the enemy into revealing vital information about himself.
    4. By making no reference to a desired enemy activity when any reference would discredit that activity.
  5. Declassified, operational information must be available to implement a propaganda campaign.
  6. To be perceived, propaganda must evoke the interest of an audience and must be transmitted through an attention-getting medium.
  7. Credibility alone must determine whether propaganda output should be true or false.
  8. The purpose, content, and effectiveness of enemy propaganda; the strength and effects of an expose'; and the nature of current propaganda campaigns determine whether enemy propaganda should be ignored or refuted.
  9. Credibility, intelligence, and the possible effects of communicating determine whether propaganda materials should be censored.
  10. Material from enemy propaganda may be utilized in operations when it helps diminish that enemy's prestige or lends support to the propagandist's own objective.
  11. Black rather than white propaganda must be employed when the latter is less credible or produces undesirable effects.
  12. Propaganda may be facilitated by leaders with prestige.
  13. Propaganda must be carefully timed.
    1. The communication must reach the audience ahead of competing propaganda.
    2. A propaganda campaign must begin at the optimum moment.
    3. A propaganda theme must be repeated, but not beyond some point of diminishing effectiveness.
  14. Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans.
    1. They must evoke responses which the audience previously possesses.
    2. They must be capable of being easily learned.
    3. They must be utilized again and again, but only in appropriate situations.
    4. They must be boomerang-proof.
  15. Propaganda to the home front must prevent the raising of false hopes which can be blasted by future events.
  16. Propaganda to the home front must create an optimum anxiety level.
    1. Propaganda must reinforce anxiety concerning the consequences of defeat.
    2. Propaganda must diminish anxiety (other than that concerning the consequences of defeat) which is too high and cannot be reduced by people themselves.
  17. Propaganda to the home front must diminish the impact of frustration.
    1. Inevitable frustrations must be anticipated.
    2. Inevitable frustrations must be placed in perspective.
  18. Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.
  19. Propaganda cannot immediately affect strong counter-tendencies; instead it must offer some form of action or diversion, or both."
 
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Franklin Pierce said:
New York Times could go dark next Thursday after 1,000 journalists pledged to walk out for 24 hours if their pay bump demands aren't met

  • NYT NewsGuild issued walkout threat in letter to management on Friday
More than 1,000 union employees at the New York Times have pledged to walk out for 24 hours if the news publisher does not agree to a 'complete and equitable contract' by December 8.

New York Times journalists pledge to walk out for 24 hours over pay demands | Daily Mail Online
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EXCLUSIVE: T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach are taken off air INDEFINITELY with new anchors stepping in to host GMA3 today as ABC execs take a hard line

Good Morning America hosts T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach have been taken off air following DailyMail.com's bombshell report revealing their affair.

Sources tell DailyMail.com that the lovers have been removed from GMA3 'indefinitely'.

A source tells DailyMail.com, 'There is massive confusion internally. ABC News executive Kim [Godwin] has taken them off the air while they deal with this internally.'


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T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach are taken off air after affair was revealed | Daily Mail Online
 
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WaPo Staffers Erupt After Publisher Announces Layoffs At ‘Town Hall’

Staff at The Washington Post erupted Wednesday after publisher Fred Ryan refused to take questions from staff after announcing layoffs.

The Washington Post’s chief spokesperson Kathy Baird confirmed that an unspecified “number of positions will be eliminated.”


WaPo Staffers Erupt After Publisher Announces Layoffs At ‘Town Hall’
 
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Franklin Pierce said:
WaPo Staffers Erupt After Publisher Announces Layoffs At ‘Town Hall’

Staff at The Washington Post erupted Wednesday after publisher Fred Ryan refused to take questions from staff after announcing layoffs.

The Washington Post’s chief spokesperson Kathy Baird confirmed that an unspecified “number of positions will be eliminated.”


WaPo Staffers Erupt After Publisher Announces Layoffs At ‘Town Hall’
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What's that old saying....🤔 Go Woke, Go Broke!🤣😂
 
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Shannon Bream is killing it, Ratings up especially with younger viewers

Fox News has another hit on its hands.

A year after former Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace ditched the cable for a short-lived stint on CNN, newly-minted host Shannon Bream has taken the show to new rating heights.

What’s more, Bream has turned her Sunday show into a must-watch among younger viewers. TV executives said that hers is the only Sunday public affairs show to grow in the critical and wealthy 25-54-year-old demographic.


Shannon Bream is killing it, ratings up especially with younger viewers
 
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