{"id":182263,"date":"2015-11-05T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/05\/f-rupert-murdoch\/"},"modified":"2015-11-05T20:42:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T01:42:00","slug":"f-rupert-murdoch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/05\/f-rupert-murdoch\/","title":{"rendered":"F%$# Rupert Murdoch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a week after taking control of the magazine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2015\/nov\/03\/national-geographic-layoffs-21st-century-fox-merger\">Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s News Corp has instituted huge layoffs at National Geographic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">National Geographic informed employees Tuesday it would lay off about 9% of its staff, months after announcing it would partner with Rupert Murdoch\u2019s 21st Century Fox as part of an expanded joint venture.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">That would amount to about 180 people out of the total 2,000 employees under the new partnership with Fox.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In September, 21st Century Fox announced a for-profit venture in which it paid $725m for control of the National Geographic Society, to create National Geographic Partners, which includes National Geographic Channels.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Magazine staffers received an email from CEO Gary Knell on Tuesday morning with instructions to make themselves available throughout the day and monitor their inboxes for information about their employment status.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe National Geographic Society and the National Geographic Channels are in the process of reorganizing in order to move forward strategically following the closing [of] the National Geographic Partners deal, which is expected to occur in mid-November,\u201d a spokesperson for National Geographic Society said in an emailed statement.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">According to the statement, layoffs will represent about 9% of the overall workforce reduction. A \u201cvoluntary separation\u201d offer has been made to other eligible employees.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cAll staff have been advised as to their status as of closing,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s like Murdoch bought Nat Geo just to kill it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like amusing yourself by pulling the wings and legs off of flies, and then putting them in the water and watching them sink.<\/p>\n<p>And thus an American treasure is destroyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a week after taking control of the magazine, Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s News Corp has instituted huge layoffs at National Geographic: National Geographic informed employees Tuesday it would lay off about 9% of its staff, months after announcing it would partner with Rupert Murdoch\u2019s 21st Century Fox as part of an expanded joint venture.That would &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,969,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-evil","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}