The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration">Biden administration</a>&#8216;s efforts to promote electric vehicles hit a roadblock during Energy Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jennifer-granholm">Jennifer Granholm</a>&#8216;s summer trip through the southeast United States.
Granholm and her entourage used a fleet of electric vehicles to journey from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Memphis, Tennessee, with town hall events along the way, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/09/10/1187224861/electric-vehicles-evs-cars-chargers-charging-energy-secretary-jennifer-granholm">NPR&#8217;s Camila Domonoske</a> wrote in a report published on Sunday.
The purpose of the trip was to &#8220;draw attention to the billions of dollars the White House is pouring into green energy and clean cars,&#8221; but Domonoske, who joined the caravan for the ride, shared how the four-day venture was not a smooth ride all the way through.
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Energy Secretary Granholm recently took 4-day EV caravan trip across the southeast to &quot;draw attention to the billions of dollars the White House is pouring into green energy and clean cars.&quot;
What happened next is like a scene out of VEEP: <a href="https://t.co/D0uuGJjJIl">pic.twitter.com/D0uuGJjJIl</a>
&mdash; Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) <a href="https://twitter.com/scottlincicome/status/1700911024017133707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;[B]etween stops, Granholm&#8217;s entourage at times had to grapple with the limitations of the present. Like when her caravan of EVs — including a luxury Cadillac Lyriq, a hefty Ford F-150 and an affordable Bolt electric utility vehicle — was planning to fast-charge in Grovetown, a suburb of Augusta, Georgia,&#8221; the report said.
&#8220;Her advance team realized there weren&#8217;t going to be enough plugs to go around. One of the station&#8217;s four chargers was broken, and others were occupied. So an Energy Department staffer tried parking a nonelectric vehicle by one of those working chargers to reserve a spot for the approaching secretary of energy,&#8221; the report continued. &#8220;That did not go down well: a regular gas-powered car blocking the only free spot for a charger?&#8221;
&#8220;In fact, a family that was boxed out — on a sweltering day, with a baby in the vehicle — was so upset they decided to get the authorities involved: They called the police,&#8221; the report added. &#8220;The sheriff&#8217;s office couldn&#8217;t do anything. It&#8217;s not illegal for a non-EV to claim a charging spot in Georgia. Energy Department staff scrambled to smooth over the situation, including sending other vehicles to slower chargers, until both the frustrated family and the secretary had room to charge.&#8221;
The story drew some mockery on social media, highlighted as being a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/electric-vehicles-catch-fire-after-hurricane-idalia-flooding">encapsulation of the hardships</a> that complicate the federal government&#8217;s push for a transition away from gasoline-burning vehicles.
Scott Lincicome, the vice president of general economics at the libertarian Cato Institute, <a href="https://twitter.com/scottlincicome/status/1700911024017133707">shared</a> a screenshot of the passage about the struggles experienced by Granholm&#8217;s crew and said it was &#8220;like a scene out of VEEP,&#8221; referring to HBO&#8217;s political satire series starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus that ran from 2012 to 2019.
&#8220;Secretary of Energy boots family with baby so she can use their EV charger. For reference, Article I, Section 9 states &#8216;No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States,'&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/profstonge/status/1700927096183304406">added</a> Heritage Foundation <a href="https://www.heritage.org/staff/peter-st-onge">research fellow</a> Peter St Onge.
Domonoske noted in her report that drivers may face more issues with there not being enough chargers as the number of electric vehicles increases. She emphasized how this is particularly a problem for non-Tesla electric vehicles, as Elon Musk&#8217;s company still <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/07/ev-sales-hyundai-overtakes-gm-but-teslas-us-dominance-continues.html">dominates</a> the market in the United States, though some other automakers are embracing Tesla&#8217;s technology and its <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/electric-vehicle-charging-network-tesla-mercedes-benz/">charging network</a> is being opened to more vehicles.
Granholm, at the end of her trip, conceded, &#8220;Clearly, we need more high-speed chargers, particularly in the South.&#8221;

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Energy Secretary’s Electric Vehicle Roadtrip Devolves Into ‘Scene Out Of VEEP’

Energy Secretary's Electric Vehicle Roadtrip Devolves Into 'Scene Out Of VEEP'

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/national-public-radio-npr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NPR</a> said on Wednesday that <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> threatened to take away the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> handle belonging to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/legacy-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news</a> outlet unless the firm continues to post on the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/social-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">platform</a>.
The outlet, which ceased using Twitter last month after Musk temporarily affixed a label to the account noting that NPR receives funds from government entities, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1173422311/elon-musk-npr-twitter-reassign" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> that Musk sent a “series of emails” to business reporter Bobby Allyn on Tuesday: &#8220;So is NPR going to start posting on Twitter again, or should we reassign @NPR to another company?&#8221;
Allyn wrote that the idea shocked “even longtime observers of Musk&#8217;s spur-of-the-moment and erratic leadership style” and asserted that an effort to reassign companies’ handles on the site “poses a serious risk of impersonation and could imperil a company&#8217;s reputation.”
The reporter noted to Musk that the current Twitter terms of service <a href="https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/inactive-twitter-accounts#:~:text=What%20is%20Twitter's%20inactive%20account,removed%20due%20to%20prolonged%20inactivity." target="_blank" rel="noopener">define</a> inactive accounts as those which do not log into the platform at least once every 30 days. &#8220;Our policy is to recycle handles that are definitively dormant,&#8221; Musk replied in another email. &#8220;Same policy applies to all accounts. No special treatment for NPR.&#8221;
NPR expressed outrage over the decision from Twitter to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-changes-nprs-state-sponsored-media-label" target="_blank" rel="noopener">add</a> a “state-affiliated media” tag to the company’s profile, a label that placed NPR in the company of foreign state-run media outlets such as TASS in Russia and Xinhua News in China. Although NPR was created with an act of Congress, Twitter previously listed NPR as an exception in the United States because of the “editorial independence” maintained by the company.
“NPR’s organizational accounts will no longer be active on Twitter because the platform is taking actions that undermine our credibility by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent,” a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/npr-ditches-twitter-over-actions-that-undermine-our-credibility" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> from NPR said last month. “We are not putting our journalism on platforms that have demonstrated an interest in undermining our credibility and the public’s understanding of our editorial independence.”
Musk <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/04/06/1168455846/elon-musk-says-nprs-state-affiliated-media-label-might-not-have-been-accurate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">removed</a> the “state-affiliated media” label from the NPR account nearly one month ago after Allyn told him that the outlet receives only 1% of its operating budget from government funds. The account has 8.8 million followers and has remained inactive since early April.
The complaints from NPR come after the outlet reduced headcount by 10% and shuttered production on four seasonal podcasts as a result of a sponsorship shortfall. Dismissed employees <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/npr-employees-cry-racism-amid-ceo-discussing-mass-layoffs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> NPR CEO John Lansing of racism in one virtual meeting about the layoffs.
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Musk, who also serves as chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, said he bought Twitter at the end of last year for $44 billion in order to reserve a corner of the public square for open dialogue. The billionaire entrepreneur <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-takes-away-blue-check-verification-from-celebrities-and-news-outlets-confusion-and-hilarity-ensue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced</a> a new revenue structure based on subscriptions rather than advertisements after he noted that a number of advertisers have ended their relationships with the company at the behest of leftist organizations, dealing a significant blow to the business.
“Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists,” Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588538640401018880" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarked</a> on the platform. “Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.”

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‘No Special Treatment’: Elon Musk Says He Will Give NPR’s Twitter Handle To Another Company Unless They Return To The Platform

Elon Musk Says He Will Give NPR's Twitter Handle To Another Company Unless They Return To The Platform

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/national-public-radio-npr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Public Radio (NPR)</a> said on Wednesday it would no longer use <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> after being slapped with labels linking the media organization to the U.S. government.
The decision, roughly six months after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> became CEO of Twitter, means NPR will cease posting content to its <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label" target="_blank" rel="noopener">52 &#8220;official&#8221;</a> Twitter feeds.
“NPR’s organizational accounts will no longer be active on Twitter because the platform is taking actions that undermine our credibility by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent,&#8221; an NPR spokesperson said in a statement.
&#8220;We are not putting our journalism on platforms that have demonstrated an interest in undermining our credibility and the public’s understanding of our editorial independence,” the statement added.
NPR expressed outrage and has not tweeted links to its reporting since last week when Twitter added a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-changes-nprs-state-sponsored-media-label" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;state-affiliated media&#8221;</a> tag to NPR&#8217;s profile, a label that put NPR in the company of foreign state-run media outlets such as Russia&#8217;s TASS and China Xinhua News. Although NPR was created <a href="https://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/caseconsortium/casestudies/54/casestudy/www/layout/case_id_54_id_544.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thanks to an act by Congress</a>, Twitter previously listed NPR <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230331001817/https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/state-affiliated" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as an exception</a> in the United States due to its &#8220;editorial independence.&#8221;
Among those who rallied to the defense of NPR was the White House. President Joe Biden&#8217;s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/npr-criticizes-twitter-for-labeling-its-account-as-state-affiliated-media-d871aa90?mod=article_inline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">touted NPR&#8217;s &#8220;independence&#8221;</a> and said its journalists &#8220;work diligently to hold public officials accountable and inform the American people.&#8221;
Critics of NPR, including Fox News host Tucker Carlson, voiced support for the change.
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Tucker hilariously SNAPS on Regime-funded NPR after Elon Musk literally exposes them to world as &quot;State media&quot; on Twitter 🔥
&quot;NPR is not that much different to the Tehran Times, except, of course being less accurate and more anti-American.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/UHg7PKjujs">pic.twitter.com/UHg7PKjujs</a>
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When an NPR reporter pointed out to Musk that NPR receives about 1% of its annual operating budget from government financial support, the CEO conceded the new label might not be correct. &#8220;The operating principle at new Twitter is simply fair and equal treatment, so if we label non-US accounts as govt, then we should do the same for US, but it sounds like that might not be accurate here,&#8221; <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/04/06/1168455846/elon-musk-says-nprs-state-affiliated-media-label-might-not-have-been-accurate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Musk wrote in an email</a>.
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Twitter then changed NPR&#8217;s label to &#8220;Government-funded Media.&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/09/media/bbc-twitter-row-intl-gbr/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBC also now has the same tag</a>.
NPR&#8217;s main Twitter account with 8.8 million followers became active on Wednesday, <a href="https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1646138100035272704" target="_blank" rel="noopener">but only to insist</a> that it &#8220;produces consequential, independent journalism every day in service to the public,&#8221; and to share other platforms upon which it will continue to post.
John Lansing, the CEO of NPR, reportedly said individual NPR staffers would be allowed to continue tweeting but stressed that NPR would not immediately return to Twitter if it drops the label. &#8220;At this point I have lost my faith in the decision-making at Twitter,&#8221; <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lansing said</a>. &#8220;I would need some time to understand whether Twitter can be trusted again.&#8221;

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NPR Ditches Twitter Over ‘Actions That Undermine Our Credibility’

NPR Ditches Twitter Over 'Actions That Undermine Our Credibility'

Twitter is no longer branding National Public Radio (NPR) “state-sponsored media.”
Elon Musk&#8217;s Twitter changed the “state-sponsored media” label on NPR&#8217;s Twitter account to “government-funded media” on Saturday.
The social media giant initially slapped the “state-sponsored media” label on the radio news outlet on Tuesday, at which point NPR&#8217;s account stopped tweeting. NPR&#8217;s last tweet was a link to one of its own articles on Tuesday.
After Twitter&#8217;s move, NPR changed its Twitter bio to state that it is “an independent news organization committed to informing the public about the world around us.”
On Wednesday, NPR President and CEO John Lansing <a href="https://twitter.com/johnlansing/status/1643632082780913665" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he was &#8220;disturbed&#8221; by Twitter&#8217;s initial decision to label the outlet &#8220;state-sponsored media&#8221; and called the move &#8220;unacceptable.&#8221;
&#8220;NPR and our Member stations are supported by millions of listeners who depend on us for the independent, fact-based journalism we provide. NPR stands for freedom of speech and holding the powerful accountable,&#8221; Lansing tweeted.
&#8220;It is unacceptable for Twitter to label us this way. A vigorous, vibrant free press is essential to the health of our democracy,&#8221; he added.
Twitter defines &#8220;state-affiliated media&#8221; as &#8220;outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution.&#8221;
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NPR&#8217;s radio stations are partially <a href="https://www.cpb.org/aboutcpb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">funded</a> by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a nonprofit funded by the federal government. The CPB also funds Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) television stations.
However, CPB says NPR is &#8220;principally funded by member stations, distribution services, underwriting and institutional grants and individual contributions,&#8221; <a href="https://cpb.org/faq#1-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the CPB website.
&#8220;On average, less than 1% of NPR&#8217;s annual operating budget comes in the form of grants from CPB and federal agencies and departments,&#8221; NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a>.
NPR correspondent David Gura pointed out that Twitter apparently edited its policy to remove a reference to NPR as a media outlet that has “editorial independence.”
“Yesterday, @elonmusk’s Twitter labeled NPR ‘state-affiliated media,’ even though the company’s own policy stated the organization shouldn’t be labeled as such because it has editorial independence,” Gura <a href="https://twitter.com/davidgura/status/1643607181395197959" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> on Wednesday.
The original &#8220;state-sponsored media&#8221; label given to NPR prompted comparisons to the &#8220;Russian state-affiliated media&#8221; label given to Russia Today&#8217;s Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/RT_com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">account</a> and the &#8220;China state-affiliated media&#8221; one <a href="https://twitter.com/XHNews" target="_blank" rel="noopener">given</a> China&#8217;s Xinhua News.
By law, it is illegal for the U.S. government to exercise “any direction, supervision, or control over the content or distribution of public telecommunications programs and services,” <a href="https://www.cpb.org/aboutpb/act">according</a> to the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.
Twitter has <a href="https://twitter.com/BBC" target="_blank" rel="noopener">put</a> the same “government-funded media” label on the British Broadcasting Corporation&#8217;s (BBC) Twitter account.
The BBC quickly objected to the move.
“We are speaking to Twitter to resolve this issue as soon as possible. The BBC is, and always has been, independent. We are funded by the British public through the licence fee.”
&#8220;What does BBC stand for again? I keep forgetting,&#8221; Twitter owner Elon Musk quipped in a tweet.
On Wednesday, the White House chimed in defending NPR as independent from government influence.
&#8220;There&#8217;s no doubt of the independence of NPR&#8217;s journalists,&#8221; White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. &#8220;If you&#8217;ve ever been on the receiving end of their questions you know that they have their independence in journalism.&#8221;

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Twitter Changes NPR’s ‘State-Sponsored Media’ Label

National Public Radio&#8217;s official Twitter account received the designation of being state-sponsored media this week, angering left-wing journalists at the company while eliciting mockery from conservatives online.
Under the account&#8217;s verification badge, the words &#8220;US state-affiliated media&#8221; now appear. The organization does receive U.S. taxpayer funding.
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Twitter has now correctly branded NPR as US state-affiliated media. It is an accurate description. <a href="https://t.co/ewg35r4xIL">pic.twitter.com/ewg35r4xIL</a>
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In response to an account posting a screenshot of the NPR&#8217;s label on the platform,  Twitter CEO Elon Musk shared the company’s policy on labeling state-affiliated media.
&#8220;State-affiliated media is defined as outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution,&#8221; the Twitter policy says.
NPR President John Lansing lashed out at the designation, claiming that the organization provides &#8220;independent, fact-based journalism.&#8221;
&#8220;We were disturbed to see last night that Twitter has labeled NPR as &#8216;state-affiliated media,&#8217; a description that, per Twitter&#8217;s own guidelines, does not apply to NPR,&#8221; he said. &#8220;NPR and our Member stations are supported by millions of listeners who depend on us for the independent, fact-based journalism we provide.&#8221;
&#8220;NPR stands for freedom of speech and holding the powerful accountable,&#8221; he claimed. &#8220;It is unacceptable for Twitter to label us this way. A vigorous, vibrant free press is essential to the health of our democracy.&#8221;
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NPR stands for freedom of speech &amp; holding the powerful accountable. A vigorous, vibrant free press is essential to the health of our democracy. My full statement on the recent inaccurate Twitter label below: <a href="https://t.co/kdusUNtNUo">pic.twitter.com/kdusUNtNUo</a>
&mdash; John Lansing (@johnlansing) <a href="https://twitter.com/johnlansing/status/1643632082780913665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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NPR infamously refused to cover the Hunter Biden laptop scandal in the weeks before the 2020 presidential election.
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&#8220;We don&#8217;t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don&#8217;t want to waste the listeners&#8217; and readers&#8217; time on stories that are just pure distractions,&#8221; NPR Managing Editor Terence Samuels said at the time in explaining why the publication would not cover the story.
Actor Dean Cain responded, &#8220;Taxpayer money should NOT fund NPR.&#8221;
Daily Caller editor Vince Coglianese tweeted: &#8220;Notice that he doesn’t even bother to acknowledge the role government funding does play in subsidizing NPR. This is written like a statement from a political campaign.&#8221;
&#8220;&#8216;[H]olding the powerful accountable&#8217; — @NPR unquestioningly carried water for the nation&#8217;s establishment &amp; elite during COVID and submits to the same political narrative that is uniformly espoused by the fed. government, academia, Hollywood, medicine, science, and media,&#8221; said Bryan Griffin, press secretary for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

NPR Gets Slapped With Warning Label On Twitter, Lashes Out In Statement

National Public Radio (NPR) employees accused the network&#8217;s CEO of racism during a virtual all-staff presentation last week detailing financial metrics and diversity level updates following the organization slashing approximately 10% of its workforce. 
NPR officials laid off 84 employees last week and halted production on four seasonal podcasts, including Invisibilia, Louder Than a Riot, and Rough Translation. <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-03-30/tensions-flare-inside-npr-after-staff-layoffs-and-town-halls">The Wall Street Journal</a> reported network officials would cut another 13 employees from the digital team.
Following the exodus from ex-staffers, Lansing and other executives reportedly tuned into a Zoom meeting to address the news department and the programming team, taking questions from employees that included how many employees of different races and identities were laid off compared to those who retained their job. 
&#8220;We&#8217;re here today to take your questions and see if we can move together through this,&#8221; Lansing said, according to a recording of the meeting that Bloomberg obtained, adding that the network would have run out of money in approximately three years if the company kept its entire staff. 
At one point during the meeting, The Wall Street Journal reported a laid-off black employee grilled Lansing about why some podcasts lacked marketing support, called out by name the executives for repeating statements they made in the past concerning more accountability, and questioned how the network would make diversity essential.
Lansing pointed to the network&#8217;s mission statement and told the group to &#8220;turn down the rhetoric&#8221; and refrain from naming the executives.
&#8220;I would never, ever, on your worst day, call you out by name in a meeting with 827 people,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Let&#8217;s please keep in mind nobody is happy about this. Nobody is more unhappy about it than those affected, but certainly, everybody in the company, beginning with me, this is the last thing we wanted to do.&#8221;
Despite Lansing&#8217;s remarks about making such decisions, a group of employees reportedly accused him of &#8220;tone-policing,&#8221; causing them to feel offended and uncomfortable with the conversation, which he said should have been more civil.
Employees began calling Lansing&#8217;s response &#8220;racist&#8221; during the Zoom meeting. 
One employee referenced a segment from NPR&#8217;s Code Switch titled &#8220;When Civility Is Used As A Cudgel Against People Of Color.&#8221; 
&#8220;Civility is a weapon wielded by the powerful,&#8221; one person wrote, according to screenshots of the chat viewed by Bloomberg.
&#8220;This meeting has made me more afraid for the future of public media than any conversation I have had in a very long time,&#8221; wrote another.
In an email, NPR Chief Communications Officer Isabel Lara told Bloomberg that the organization creates &#8220;forums for internal staff conversations and respects the hard questions that come from our staff.&#8221; 
&#8220;We value the feedback we receive and acknowledge that this is an incredibly difficult time for everyone in our organization,&#8221; Lara said. &#8220;Our staff has the right and duty to hold NPR leadership accountable,&#8221; adding the organization has committed to creating and maintaining an environment where &#8220;we treat our colleagues with the utmost compassion, respect and dignity, and we will continue to provide opportunities for everyone in the organization to provide feedback on this process and support continuing dialogue.&#8221;
In a February <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/npr-sees-sharp-decline-in-ad-revenue-announces-10-of-staff-face-layoffs">memo</a> distributed to NPR staff, CEO John Lansing broke the news that the network would have to cut most vacant positions and lay off around 10% of its current staff — approximately 100 employees — amid a &#8220;sharp decline&#8221; in advertisement revenues. 
Lansing broke the news nearly three months after pledging the nonprofit media organization would attempt to avoid layoffs as the network said it would lose approximately $10 million from the current fiscal year budget.
&#8220;Our financial outlook has darkened considerably over recent weeks,&#8221; Lansing wrote in the memo published by The Hollywood Reporter. &#8220;At a time when we are doing some of our most ambitious and essential work, the global economy remains uncertain. As a result, the ad industry has weakened and we are grappling with a sharp decline in our revenues from corporate sponsors.&#8221;
According to the outlet, the company employs over 700 individuals, with about 490 people filling the newsroom and 230 staff members in the programming division. Lansing told NPR staffers that officials had created a plan to address a $20 million sponsorship revenue fall-off for the current fiscal year, but new projections show at least a $30 million shortfall.

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Rolling Stone magazine allegedly omitted references to child pornography in a report from the publication late last year about the FBI&#8217;s raid on an ABC News journalist.
NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/03/21/1164360143/rolling-stone-fbi-raid-journalist-james-gordon-meek" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Rolling Stone Editor-in-Chief Noah Shachtman edited the story from reporter Tatiana Siegel on former ABC News national security producer James Gordon Meek, who was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-abc-news-producer-arrested-charged-with-transporting-images-of-child-sexual-abuse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> earlier this year on child pornography charges.
The report said that Shachtman told Siegel not to use the words &#8220;child pornography&#8221; in her article.
Shachtman has reportedly always been skeptical of government sources and did not believe that the reporter had solid enough sources to be able to claim that the raid had something to do with child pornography, according to the NPR report. Shachtman also instructed those involved with selecting the photo for the story to use a photo of the FBI and not of Meek.
&#8220;The Meek case was a particularly complex one, and the editorial choices made while covering it weren&#8217;t always simple or easy,&#8221; Rolling Stone&#8217;s parent company, Penske Media, said in a statement. &#8220;So Rolling Stone stuck to a simple principle: publish in the moment as much information as it could confidently substantiate.&#8221;
Meek, 53, of Arlington, Virginia, was arrested at the end of January after the file hosting service Dropbox tipped off authorities about five suspected videos of child sexual exploitation material in an account. The information was ultimately received by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington Field Office’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force.
FBI authorities conducted a raid of Meek’s residence in April 2022, and he resigned shortly after.
“Law enforcement seized multiple devices that allegedly contained evidence of the transportation of images of child sexual abuse,” authorities said in a news release.
According to court documents, devices belonging to the producer allegedly contained images depicting children engaged in sexually explicit conduct and multiple chat conversations with users engaged in sexually explicit conversations where the participants expressed enthusiasm for the sexual abuse of children.
“In two of those conversations, a username allegedly associated with Meek received and distributed child sexual abuse materials through an internet-based messaging platform,” the statement reads.
Prosecutors claimed they found pornographic images on the producer’s iPhone 8, iPhone 6, an external hard drive, and laptop depicting the abuse of children as young as a toddler.
Meek’s iPhone 8 allegedly contained messages and child pornography exchanged with another alleged pedophile.
In the messages, Rolling Stone reported on in February 2023, Meek allegedly appeared to confess to previously abusing children.
“Have you ever raped a toddler girl? It’s amazing,” he allegedly wrote in one exchange, Rolling Stone reported.
If convicted, Meek faces a mandatory minimum of five years in prison, and a maximum penalty of 20 years.
Brandon Drey contributed to this report.

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National Public Radio (NPR) announced Wednesday the network plans to cut the majority of vacant positions and slash around 10% of its current staff — approximately 100 employees — amid a &#8220;sharp decline&#8221; in advertisement revenues.
In a <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/02/22/1158710498/npr-layoffs-2023#:~:text=via%20Getty%20Images-,NPR%20will%20cut%2010%25%20of%20its%20workforce%2C%20CEO%20John%20Lansing,a%20slowdown%20in%20advertising%20dollars.&amp;text=NPR's%20chief%20executive%20announced%20the,and%20eliminate%20most%20vacant%20positions.">memo</a> distributed to NPR staff on Wednesday, CEO John Lansing broke the news nearly three months after pledging the nonprofit media organization would attempt to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/11/30/1139888190/npr-budget-shortfall-20-million">avoid layoffs</a> as the network said it would lose approximately $10 million from the current fiscal year budget.
&#8220;Our financial outlook has darkened considerably over recent weeks,&#8221; Lansing wrote in the memo published by <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/npr-layoffs-10-percent-job-cuts-john-lansing-1235331693/">The Hollywood Reporter</a>. &#8220;At a time when we are doing some of our most ambitious and essential work, the global economy remains uncertain. As a result, the ad industry has weakened and we are grappling with a sharp decline in our revenues from corporate sponsors.&#8221;
According to the outlet, the company employs over 700 individuals, with about 490 people filling the newsroom and 230 staff members in the programming division.
&#8220;When we say we are eliminating filled positions, we are talking about our colleagues — people whose skills, spirit and talents help make NPR what it is today,&#8221; Lansing wrote in the memo. &#8220;This will be a major loss.&#8221;&#8216;
Lansing told NPR staffers that officials had created a plan to address a $20 million sponsorship revenue fall-off for the current fiscal year, but new projections show at least a $30 million shortfall.
&#8220;The cuts we have already made to our budget will not be enough,&#8221; he said, adding that officials don&#8217;t see signs of recovery in the ad space market.
&#8220;Nothing is nailed down yet except the principles and what we know we have to reach,&#8221; he said.
It is unknown which NPR employees could face unemployment at this point. Still, Lansing noted that the job cuts would not fall evenly across the board, vowing to ensure &#8220;employees of color&#8221; would not be disproportionately affected, NPR reported.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t anticipate that it would be like a haircut across every division, because that&#8217;s just not management,&#8221; Lansing says. &#8220;Management is about committing to strategy, making tough decisions.&#8221;
The network reported officials would make final decisions on which employees would be laid off toward the end of March.
Multiple media companies have been announcing layoffs over the past few months.
Last month, Vox announced layoffs that will impact 7% of employees as other companies in the sector implement similar measures. Meanwhile, Gannett and Spotify cut about 6% of their workforce, and CNN axed its streaming service CNN+ and dismissed hundreds of employees in December after joining the Warner Discovery family.
Layoffs at prominent legacy media outlets also come as companies in the technology sector dismiss thousands of employees. Microsoft, Google, and Amazon revealed their intentions to reduce headcount by a combined 40,000 workers over the past few weeks.
 Ben Zeisloft contributed to this report.

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NPR&#8217;s Michigan Morning Edition aired an abortion on air Thursday morning, complete with the sound of the 11-week-old preborn child being vacuumed from the womb.
Reporter Katie Wells narrated the account of the unnamed woman undergoing the abortion at a Northland Family Planning in the Detroit area.
“Most patients are partially awake during the procedures, they get IV medication for pain and anxiety,” the reporter continued. “The lights are dimmed, there’s soothing music, it actually feels a lot like a childbirth, in a medical gown, your bare legs and stirrups, and a person next to you, saying, ‘You can do this,&#8217;” Wells said during the 11-minute segment.
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I almost didn&#39;t want to tweet this but it&#39;s something everyone needs to know. NPR on the radio this morning played audio of a woman getting an abortion. You can hear the vacuum turning on, crying, moaning, and the doctor telling her it&#39;s done. 
Warning: It&#39;s tough to listen to. <a href="https://t.co/nlSNz0m5Ka">pic.twitter.com/nlSNz0m5Ka</a>
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A staffer named Brandy told the mother, &#8220;Just keep breathing,&#8221; as the child was suctioned from the mother&#8217;s body.
Upon completion, the audio includes encouragement from someone in the room saying, &#8220;You did it!&#8221;
The mother of the aborted child thanked the abortion providers after the procedure ended.
&#8220;Abortion clinics are almost always closed to press. But a group of MI clinics generously allowed us to embed with them, b/c abortion rights are on the ballot in Michigan this Nov. But for the drs, staff and patients we met there, none of this was about politics,&#8221; Wells wrote in October during her investigation.
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Abortion clinics are almost always closed to press. But a group of MI clinics generously allowed us to embed with them, b/c abortion rights are on the ballot in Michigan this Nov. But for the drs, staff and patients we met there, none of this was about politics.
&mdash; Kate Wells (@KateLouiseWells) <a href="https://twitter.com/KateLouiseWells/status/1585283890884710405?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;For the patients who allowed us into their lives (and their procedures), it’s about whether they can escape an abusive partner. Or support the kids they already have. Or finish school, or keep their jobs. We&#8217;re going to take you inside this clinic,&#8221; she added.
For nine days ahead of the midterm elections, Wells shared stories from her investigation in a lengthy <a href="https://www.michiganradio.org/health/2022-10-26/nine-days-in-a-michigan-abortion-clinic-as-election-looms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a>. One account spoke of a woman name Melissa from Ohio who came to Michigan for an abortion. Ohio recently enacted a ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
“I would be struggling for a very long time,” Melissa said. “I would have to drop out of school. And I would have to find a different job, because I would need more daycare.” She opted to go through with an abortion at 14 weeks of pregnancy.
The broadcast of the destruction of the preborn child&#8217;s life led to quick and intense outrage from many.
&#8220;A recording of a murder. Outlaw abortion now,&#8221; pro-life group Live Action <a href="https://twitter.com/LiveAction/status/1588232741589590016?s=20&amp;t=P4RNNh66t7a5id_-NjLtXw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>.
&#8220;So NPR recognizes the connection to childbirth but is complicit with taking the life of the child through abortion versus giving the boy or girl life,&#8221; Dan Bartkowiak wrote. &#8220;Heartbreaking. Sickening. Evil.&#8221;
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WARNING: Audio of an abortion.<a href="https://twitter.com/NPR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NPR</a>: &quot;It actually feels a lot like a childbirth.&quot;
So NPR recognizes the connection to childbirth but is complicit with taking the life of the child through abortion versus giving the boy or girl life. 
Heartbreaking. Sickening. Evil. <a href="https://t.co/TZwgplEvry">https://t.co/TZwgplEvry</a>
&mdash; Dan Bartkowiak (@DanBartkowiak) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanBartkowiak/status/1588234119653326848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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NPR receives funding for less than 1% of its budget directly from the federal government, <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/national-public-radio-npr/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> a report by Influence Watch. However, the public radio broadcaster receives almost 10% of its budget from federal, state, and local governments indirectly as of 2018. NPR&#8217;s <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/520907625" target="_blank" rel="noopener">202o Form 990</a> shows a total annual revenue of over $277 million.

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Multiple legacy media <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mainstream-media">outlets</a> were slammed Friday for their coverage of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-former-japanese-pm-shinzo-abe-feared-dead-after-being-shot">assassination</a>.
Taxpayer-funded NPR was criticized after <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/07/08/npr-called-ex-japan-pm-shinzo-abe-divisive-arch-conservative/">describing</a> Abe as a “divisive arch-conservative” in a now-deleted tweet, and NBC’s “Today” show was blasted after it showed flags from the wrong country during their segment on Abe’s assassination.
&#8220;When Fidel Castro died, NPR called him a ‘prominent international figure,’” former Rep. Mark Walker (R-NC) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMarkWalker/status/1545435707057004547">tweeted</a>. “On Yasser Arafat’s death ‘a freedom fighter.’ On Prime Minister’s [Abe]’s assassination, NPR’s statement: ‘a divisive arch-conservative and an ultranationalist.’ Brought to you by your US tax dollars.”
In a headline that remains unchanged, ABC News mirrors NPR’s language, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/shinzo-abe-divisive-powerful-japan-pm-assassinated-86438692">referring</a> to Abe as a “divisive archconservative.” <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/07/08/npr-called-ex-japan-pm-shinzo-abe-divisive-arch-conservative/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=NYPTwitter">According</a> to the New York Post, The Associated Press also used the same language in multiple photos to describe the former world leader.
While some legacy news outlets were criticized for their controversial descriptions of Abe in the hours after his death, NBC’s “Today” show made people’s eyes roll with an embarrassing blunder. In the “Today” show’s segment on Abe Friday morning, it briefly showed a clip of South Korean flags, highlighting the wrong Asian country.
&#8220;@NBC&#8217;s @Todayshow played footage featuring South Korean flags while discussing the death of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday,” the Washington Examiner’s Julia Johnson <a href="https://twitter.com/juliaajohnson_/status/1545458141579575301">wrote</a>.
Twitter users were quick to pile on the &#8220;Today&#8221; show for its mistake.
“Ummmm, wrong country, @TODAYshow,” Newsbusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck wrote along with a screenshot of the news outlet’s blunder. “@NBCNews, your morning show has some issues with keeping the countries in Asia straight.”
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Ummmm, wrong country, <a href="https://twitter.com/TODAYshow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TODAYshow</a>.<a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NBCNews</a>, your morning show has some issues with keeping the countries in Asia straight. <a href="https://t.co/0UngDDpVb3">pic.twitter.com/0UngDDpVb3</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1545401143894937600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Wow! Now THAT&#8217;s embarrassing! @NBCNews @TODAYshow televised the Tokyo Olympics just over a year ago and already they&#8217;ve forgotten what the Japanese flag looks like. Hint: That&#8217;s the flag of South Korea,” another Twitter user <a href="https://twitter.com/SoquelCreek/status/1545472600364634113">pointed out</a>.
Abe, the longest serving prime minister in Japan since World War II, was gunned down Friday while giving a speech. The Right-leaning former leader of America’s ally went into cardiac arrest and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-former-japanese-pm-shinzo-abe-feared-dead-after-being-shot">died</a> five hours after being shot.
President Joe Biden, along with former presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama, said they were deeply <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/intolerable-criminal-act-world-leaders-shocked-by-assassination-of-japans-longest-serving-prime-minister">saddened</a> by Abe’s death.
“This is a tragedy for Japan and for all who knew him. I had the privilege to work closely with Prime Minister Abe,” Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/07/08/statement-by-president-biden-on-the-killing-of-former-japanese-prime-minister-abe-shinzo/">said</a>. “The longest serving Japanese Prime Minister, his vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific will endure. Above all, he cared deeply about the Japanese people and dedicated his life to their service.”

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<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/npr-reporter-erupts-after-editor-criticizes-scotus-story-denied-by-justices/">NPR&#8217;s</a> Steve Inskeep scrapped his traditional <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/this-july-4th-i-will-gladly-take-billie-joe-armstrongs-american-citizenship/">4th of July</a> reading of the Declaration of Independence on Monday after more than three decades, and instead opted to devote the segment to a discussion on equality.
After a bit of a false start in 2021 — when the hosts read the Declaration but drew attention to what they believed were flaws and hypocrisies — Inskeep and his co-host Leila Fadel ended the 33-year tradition in 2022. They replaced it with an 11-minute segment examining what equality truly meant, both when the Declaration of Independence was written and in the years since then.
&#8220;This July 4th we break with tradition,&#8221; Fadel tweeted. &#8220;Instead of a reading of the Declaration of Independence @NPRinskeep examines what equality means and has meant in this document. Important segment about our past and future &#8230; produced by @marcarivers and @bgordemer.&#8221;
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This July 4th we break with tradition. Instead of a reading of the Declaration of Independence <a href="https://twitter.com/NPRinskeep?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NPRinskeep</a> examines what equality means and has meant in this document. Important segment about our past and future&#8230;produced by <a href="https://twitter.com/marcarivers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@marcarivers</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/bgordemer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bgordemer</a> <a href="https://t.co/MxlgNaWpC1">https://t.co/MxlgNaWpC1</a>
&mdash; Leila Fadel (@LeilaFadel) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeilaFadel/status/1543911485465923585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
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For the segment, among others, Inskeep spoke with Harvard historian Jill Lepore — who explained that Thomas Jefferson drew from enlightenment thinkers when he wrote the concept of equality into the Declaration.
&#8220;It’s fashionable, and rightfully so, to indict the limits of [Jefferson’s] vision. But in the 18th century, even the idea that all white men are created equal was a radical notion at the time,&#8221; Lepore explained. &#8220;Those men lived in a highly ranked culture, and a declaration of equality is throwing that away, or challenging that in a revolutionary manner.&#8221;
Inskeep tied the conversation to recent heated political battles, applying the concept of equality to the recently-overturned landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade. &#8220;And many of our debates on this July 4th turn on what equality means. What voting rules really give equal access to the ballot. Do abortion laws give a woman equal control of her body? At what point is a fetus entitled to equal rights?&#8221; he asked.
He went on to suggest that Republicans were behind a push for &#8220;unequal voting power,&#8221; adding, &#8220;For some people equality is out of style. Some political progressives prefer the term, &#8216;equity.&#8217; Some Republicans in Texas and Colorado have called for unequal voting power, giving more weight to conservative voters. The global move toward authoritarian rule opposes equality, asserting that some people are more equal than others.&#8221;

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Ukrainian Supreme Court Judge Ivan Mishchenko returned to Kyiv after helping his family members evacuate, joining a Territorial Defense Force unit in the fight to save Ukraine from invading Russian troops — and NPR&#8217;s Mara Liasson joined with several others on Twitter to discuss casting the movie that they said Hollywood should make about his life.
&#8220;The Ukrainian Supreme Court judge, Ivan Mishchenko, <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/the-only-way-to-stop-murder-is-another-murder-ukrainian-man-tells-cnn-that-putin-is-much-worse-than-hitler/">evacuated his family</a> from Kyiv and returned to volunteer for one of the Territorial Defence Force units,&#8221; news source Visegrad 24 <a href="https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1500681487989018626">tweeted</a>.
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The Ukrainian Supreme Court judge, Ivan Mishchenko, evacuated his family from Kyiv and returned to volunteer for one of the Territorial Defence Force units. <a href="https://t.co/ZykpIdMury">pic.twitter.com/ZykpIdMury</a>
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Seeing a resemblance between the judge and Australian actor Russell Crowe, one Twitter user remarked, &#8220;Russell Crowe can play him in a Hollywood movie about this war. I will be &#8216;entertained.'&#8221;
&#8220;And daniel craig will play putin. zelenskyy as himself,&#8221; Liasson, NPR&#8217;s national political reporter, tweeted in response.
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and daniel craig will play putin. zelenskyy as himself. <a href="https://t.co/zMv9JKA3yG">https://t.co/zMv9JKA3yG</a>
&mdash; Mara Liasson (@MaraLiasson) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaraLiasson/status/1501049460117364746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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A number of critics quickly fired back, calling for National Public Radio — which receives federal funding — to be defunded or asking Liasson who she had in mind to play the thousands of Ukrainian civilians who were being killed by Russian shelling every day that the war continued to wage on.
&#8220;NPR’s dream casting a war that’s in the first quarter. Gross &amp; weird,&#8221; reality tv star Chet Cannon <a href="https://twitter.com/Chet_Cannon/status/1501063758956806145">tweeted</a>.
Conservative pundit Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1501058146013384704">added</a>, &#8220;Innocent people are being shot and bombed in the street and Mara from NPR is like &#8216;can&#8217;t wait for the movie!'&#8221;
Mishchenko was far from the only high-profile figure to take up arms for his country. Former professional tennis player Sergiy Stakhovsky returned to Ukraine last week in order to join the fight.
&#8220;I just told them I’ll be right back, and I hope I will be,&#8221; he said of leaving his wife and children behind.
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“I just told them I’ll be right back, and I hope I will be”
Retired Ukrainian tennis player, Sergiy Stakhovsky has returned to his home country to fight. 
He tells <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BBCBreakfast?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BBCBreakfast</a> about leaving his wife and children behind ⬇️<a href="https://t.co/4wqKsA4boU">https://t.co/4wqKsA4boU</a> <a href="https://t.co/xuJmcHtOQM">pic.twitter.com/xuJmcHtOQM</a>
&mdash; BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCBreakfast/status/1499294633897205760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I have three kids and a wife and we were on vacation in Dubai when this happened &#8230; It was not an easy decision, but for me in these circumstances, it was not a decision which would be right for me — if I would stay home I would feel guilt that I didn&#8217;t come back and now I&#8217;m here and I feel guilty I left them at home,&#8221; he told CNN&#8217;s Brianna Keilar in another interview.
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&quot;I love them very much and they understand the reasons why I&#39;m here. Because the country which I love &#8230; I would like it to still be on the map.&quot;
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He went on to say that his young children had not been told where he was, hinting that he&#8217;d explained his absence by saying he&#8217;d gone to a tennis event — but he added that his children were smart, saying, &#8220;I guess they will figure out soon.&#8221;
&#8220;I was born here, and my grandparents are buried here, and I would like to have a history to tell to my kids. If I would stay home and Ukraine would fail, there would be no Ukraine &#8230; I love them very much and they understand the reasons why I&#8217;m here. Because the country which I love &#8230; I would like it to still be on the map,&#8221; Stakhovsky concluded, saying that if Ukraine fell to Russia, the only history that survived would be the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/ukraine-was-entirely-created-by-russia-putin-rewrote-history-in-angry-speech/">revisionist history</a> that has been so often repeated by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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