Not Too Late To Make The Top Story Post For The Week -- April 19, 2020

Top stories for the past week are posted here.

I still need to add Geoff Simon's top ND stories of the week. I always post them last.

This story was posted earlier today. Even though it technically did not meet the "deadline" for last week, I'm not going to hold it for a whole week. It's such a feel good story it needs to be added to this past week's top stories.

The New York Times reports that “Roughly 33,000 workers at news companies in the U.S. have been laid off, been furloughed or had their pay reduced. Some publications that rely on ads have shut down.” And it seldom gets better than this:

NPR Warns of Major Cuts Due to Coronavirus

NPR will be instituting severe cost-cutting measures as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Wednesday internal memo, with a budget deficit looming as high as $25 million through fiscal 2021. . .

NPR doesn't accept advertising dollars? I'm not quite sure why the pandemic would affect their budget. One would think in a national crisis like this, the most-respected mainstream media outlet would be the most-listened-to outlet and the most financially solvent news outlet in the US. I don't get it.

But if this is happening in the news sector, imagine what's happening over at channels 36, 35, 34, and 33 -- all sports networks on Spectrum Cable. Re-running "classic NFL," "classic NBA," "classic PGA," and most insane of all, NASCAR races with drivers in simulators.