December 12, 2018
NPRgatory; the Socialist Sweatshop of Public Radio
Jack Kemp forwards this:
Bozell & Graham Column: NPR Shamelessly Exploits Cheap Labor
"National Public Radio is out begging for donations this week, with major stations like Washington's WAMU offering gifts like those silly reusable grocery bags touting the "The Power of Truth". But the truth can be pretty embarrassing. Apparently, NPR exploits cheap labor.
Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi has revealed that according to union representatives, 20 to 22 percent of NPR's 483 union-covered newsroom workforce, or one in five employees, are temps...and they've been doing this for decades
"Without temporary workers†who are subject to termination without cause †NPR would probably be unable to be NPR," Farhi reported. "Temps do almost every important job in NPR's newsroom: They pitch ideas, assign stories, edit them, report and produce them. Temps not only book the guests heard in interviews, they often write the questions the hosts ask the guests."Â
This is an unusual arrangement in the media. About five percent of the staff at a typical TV station is employed on a part-time or temporary basis, according to the Radio Television Digital News Association. Radio stations, with smaller news staffs, reported an average of just one part-timer or temp in that survey.
The pay isn't awful $21.63 per hour, or $45,000 a year if you worked full time but there's no guarantee you will be working consistently. There's health insurance â€" if you work consistently. And it takes a toll, even on the people still working there. One wrote:"any, if not most, of the folks I work with in the newsroom started in this ugly purgatory"
Read the rest!
Bozell & Graham Column: NPR Shamelessly Exploits Cheap Labor
"National Public Radio is out begging for donations this week, with major stations like Washington's WAMU offering gifts like those silly reusable grocery bags touting the "The Power of Truth". But the truth can be pretty embarrassing. Apparently, NPR exploits cheap labor.
Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi has revealed that according to union representatives, 20 to 22 percent of NPR's 483 union-covered newsroom workforce, or one in five employees, are temps...and they've been doing this for decades
"Without temporary workers†who are subject to termination without cause †NPR would probably be unable to be NPR," Farhi reported. "Temps do almost every important job in NPR's newsroom: They pitch ideas, assign stories, edit them, report and produce them. Temps not only book the guests heard in interviews, they often write the questions the hosts ask the guests."Â
This is an unusual arrangement in the media. About five percent of the staff at a typical TV station is employed on a part-time or temporary basis, according to the Radio Television Digital News Association. Radio stations, with smaller news staffs, reported an average of just one part-timer or temp in that survey.
The pay isn't awful $21.63 per hour, or $45,000 a year if you worked full time but there's no guarantee you will be working consistently. There's health insurance â€" if you work consistently. And it takes a toll, even on the people still working there. One wrote:"any, if not most, of the folks I work with in the newsroom started in this ugly purgatory"
Read the rest!
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