PBS NewsHour Closes Offices, Lays Off Staff, Turns to Freelancers

Along with sending our own teams in the field, we anticipate building new relationships with a variety of locally-based freelance video journalists around the country,” Winslow wrote to staff. “Under no circumstances do we intend to abandon the mini-documentary reports that have become so critical to our broadcast. The NewsHour remains committed to delivering the same kind of in-depth reporting our viewers and supporters expect from us.”

Freelancers, eh? Sounds like PBS is trying to avoid the ObamaCare they championed.

No doubt that all those losing their jobs are certain they have nothing to worry about in the Obama economy their network has been happy-talking for the last five years.

It is called funemployment, right?

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