{"id":74479,"date":"2020-06-24T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74479"},"modified":"2020-06-24T10:52:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T15:52:27","slug":"there-are-millions-of-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74479","title":{"rendered":"There Are Millions Of Reasons\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230; why I will never donate a single penny to Minnesota Public radio, even though I listen to them (primarily news and classical music) constantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two of them, for starters, are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Keri Miller<\/li><li>WNYC&#8217;s &#8220;On The Media&#8221;. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>But a few more million of them are right here; as Minnesota Public radio lays off much of what used to be a pretty good news room, their executive staff still keep getting paid, well, like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1598\" height=\"899\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_0767.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74478\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_0767.jpg 1598w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_0767-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_0767-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_0767-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_0767-1536x864.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_0767-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1598px) 100vw, 1598px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To add insult to injury, MPR&#8217;s national production group, &#8220;American Public Media&#8221;,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/live-from-here-chris-thile-canceled-covid-1016113\/\">is canceling &#8220;Live from Here with Chris Thile&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; the excellent show that grew from the ruins of &#8220;Prairie Home Companion&#8221;, and one of the few original production non-news shows worth listening to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MPR hastens to point out that their C-suite is taking a 30% pay cut.    Which sounds like a big deal, until you realize that a whole lot of private sector CEOs are cutting their pay to $1 for the duration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; why I will never donate a single penny to Minnesota Public radio, even though I listen to them (primarily news and classical music) constantly. Two of them, for starters, are: Keri Miller WNYC&#8217;s &#8220;On The Media&#8221;. But a few more million of them are right here; as Minnesota Public radio lays off much of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,63,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-alt-media","category-lefty-alt-media","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74479"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74530,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74479\/revisions\/74530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}