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FormerKarmaKing t1_jbsq4tz wrote
> "It remains clear to me that the role of Managing Editor is not empowered with supervisory authority or meaningful institutional leadership," she wrote. "Repeated attempts to have the role clarified and to be included in meaningful management and leadership decisions have been met with inaction. Therefore, I am once again clarifying my intention to resign from the position of Managing Editor effective February 1."
You’re a managing editor, not a CEO. You get to direct what sort of stories get covered and how. There’s no doubt another manager that manages production staff and so on that doesn’t get to manage what you manage either.
Unions are generally a good thing. But media employees have such an inflated sense of how much control they have or should have of a company.
What happens next is they throw their employer under the bus, wildly overplay their hand, or both. And they lose because unless their content is a massive hit there is always someone else willing to do a prestigious and cushy job without being a total pain in the ass.
Sourpatchadult2024 t1_jbp2jjg wrote
Who cares?
SSG_SSG_BloodMoon t1_jbu2h8w wrote
I mean it does seem like unionbusting as described
Obstinate_Turnip t1_jbvjgaa wrote
I occasionally listened to the first ten minutes or so of this program, inadvertently, after forgetting to switch away after Morning Edition. Happy to hear that it's cancelled -- hopefully it will be replaced by something better, but given the trend in public radio, that's not too likely (I used to listen to NPR quite a few hours a week, subscribe, etc., but that was twenty years ago -- I hardly ever find myself listening to anything but the BBC on WNYC now). I tend to call it, in my head, National Public Race and Gender Radio. My heuristic is to occasionally give it a try, but the first mention of racial/gender identity, I give it a rest -- it's rarely more than 5 or 10 minutes. Apparently, supplementary DEI training is what their main audience is there for these days.
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The_Lone_Apple t1_jbohjjl wrote
Tough luck.
Calm-Heat-5883 t1_jbopkp0 wrote
Never even heard of the show until I saw this article. Maybe that's why it was canceled. Or someone thought themselves more important than they were and management deciding enough is enough. There's a little tell in her telling them she was stepping down when her demands were not met. But basically begging for her job back when told they were canceling the show. Her bluff was called.
BringMeInfo t1_jbopw0l wrote
The WNYC leadership is toxic AF and I wouldn't take their side of things at face value.
The_Lone_Apple t1_jbow24g wrote
The harshest lesson that some people learn in life is that it isn't fair no matter how many songs you sing or chants you voice. This is especially true in media. It's about money, money, money, money and money.
BringMeInfo t1_jbowjt9 wrote
Yeah, we still have employment laws and even if the firing is legal, doesn't mean it's above criticism. Responding to "that's unjust" with "well, life isn't fair" is defeatism and I reject it.
The_Lone_Apple t1_jboy3yv wrote
People can criticize anything they like. A show, a law, a piece of pizza, whatever.
BringMeInfo t1_jboy8qy wrote
Then I’m left to wonder about the point of your comment.
The_Lone_Apple t1_jbp0euy wrote
The point is that Perry can be as upset as she likes and try to make a thing out of it to benefit herself, but in the end it doesn't matter.
SSG_SSG_BloodMoon t1_jbu359m wrote
Wdym it doesn't matter? People were fired, a show was cancelled. Why are you posting "it doesn't matter" in this piece's comments section rather than in any other given news comment section? By "it doesn't matter" you mean "it happened" and somehow that's a dismissal of something?
molingrad t1_jbqaan1 wrote
Not that I listened to it much, but she wasn’t a great host compared to the dude who came before. It also never was terribly interesting anyway.