Constitution was adopted and the United States of America was officially formed. He was one of the non-signing delegates at the Convention, which meant that he participated in the Convention but was not one of the signers of the U. He and some others opposed some of the language and terminology of the constitution and therefore declined to sign it. Prior to his participation in the Constitutional Convention he became a member of the Continental Congress in He served in that capacity until , when he declined to sign the U.
He was admitted to the New York State Bar in He is best described as an American political leader and a jurist. He is of Dutch descent. The family name of his ancestors was spelled, Lansingh, and he was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. During the time period he was the military secretary to General Philip Schuyler.
In he was elected a member of the New York State Assembly and served in that capacity until He was appointed to be a justice of the New York State Supreme Court in and served in that capacity until , when he became chief justice, and served as chief justice until And it really opened the funnel.
It did not drive a lot of immediate donations, but there were some. Current: Companies like Spotify and Amazon have been pouring big money into podcasting. Apple is reportedly building a podcast subscription service.
We still remain one of the top, if not the top, podcasters in America. So I brought in Michael Smith as our new chief marketing officer almost a year ago. Current: With broadcast listening declining during the pandemic, what is NPR doing to address and adjust to those trends? Lansing: Back in May and June, it was an alarming decline in radio ratings. This also includes eliminating the role of chief digital officer held by Thomas Hjelm at the end of February.
Why did you undertake this? Current: Do you have any examples of how digital operations would be integrated into divisions throughout the organization? In a large part, the digital teams and the divisions will work together to reach a final model. Pack then took a number of actions that raised fears about the independence of the agency, which includes Voice of America.
What was it like for you to watch that happen? Lansing: I guess I would comment just as a citizen watching from outside. I had been gone for the better part of a year or so. In these comments, John Lansing slides by with a public swipe at the Trump administration regarding the now former managers of his former place of employment USAGM but claims the mantle of private citizen to do so.
This is just dishonest, especially since NPR became what amounted to a voice of the opposition in its coverage of this dysfunctional federal agency. NPR was seen to align itself with federal workers at VOA who essentially conducted an internal uprising on government time, while NPR made quite clear in its coverage where it stood.
Not exactly. This is simply disingenuous. Lansing clearly had an ongoing interest in the USAGM story and the notion that that at some point along the line he did not provide his take, at minimum, to NPR reporting staff, on the story beggars belief.
Oh wait…. I am still morning the loss of an objective NPR. The ratings have tanked because all they talk about is race. They lost their objectivity and are now just pushing leftist ideology. So sad to lose an American institution to propaganda. Fear drives their path. Former long time member. So sad to me. Your email address will not be published. Lansing was appointed Chancellor of New York on October 25, and continued in that office until October 25, when he reached the constitutionally-mandated age of retirement, sixty years.
Although there was no formal system of law reporting then, several of his opinions survive and indicate that he was a learned judge. When the case was finally resolved against Chancellor Livingston, John V. Yates unsuccessfully sued him for unlawful imprisonment In the Matter of Yates Also, while Chancellor, he refused to grant an injunction to restrain a violation of the Fulton-Livingston steamboat monopoly Livingston v.
Van Ingen on the ground that the monopoly violated the natural rights of citizens to the free navigation of state waters. His decision was overruled by the Court for the Correction of Errors. Following his retirement as Chancellor, Lansing returned to the practice of the law and authored a small volume entitled Reports of Select Cases in Chancery and in the Supreme Court of the State of New York in and
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