? At the same time they removed the state-affiliated media, from a ton of global times and CCT affiliated content creators. Guess musk really needs that tesla market in china..
NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
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#22Is NPR state funded? (real question - I actually don't know). What is the definition of state funded? Here in Canada all the media take government subsidies especially the big ones - a lot of that I think is the economics, they simply don't generate enough revenue on their own to sustain themselves so in the process of being subsidized by the federal govt they take on the viewpoint that can be considered statist. You just can't bite the hand that feeds you. The step that comes before independence of thoughts has to be independence of economics.
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#23Re: NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
#24Is NPR state funded? (real question - I actually don't know). What is the definition of state funded? Here in Canada all the media take government subsidies especially the big ones - a lot of that I think is the economics, they simply don't generate enough revenue on their own to sustain themselves so in the process of being subsidized by the federal govt they take on the viewpoint that can be considered statist. You…
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#25> It receives less than 1 percent Why do they keep saying they receive almost nothing, yet at the same time say government funding is essential to their operation?
https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finance...
> Public radio stations receive annual grants directly from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) that make up an important part of a diverse revenue mix that includes listener support, corporate sponsorship and grants. Stations, in turn, draw on this mix of public and privately sourced revenue to pay NPR and other public radio producers for their programming.
Sounds like it may be more than 1% in total?
Re: NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
#26It's labeled "Government-funded Media".
Re: NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
#27But he spoke the truth
In the BBC's case, he's acknowledge it's not accurate. NPR's case is similar (and even less "state affiliated" than they are). https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65248196 > Mr Musk said Twitter was adjusting the label for the BBC to "publicly-funded". "We're trying to be accurate," he said. If NPR is state affiliated because of 1% government funding, SpaceX should get the tag.
Including Elon's SpaceX spam tweets.
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#28> It receives less than 1 percent Why do they keep saying they receive almost nothing, yet at the same time say government funding is essential to their operation?
They also say my $60/yr is essential so I can’t see NPR saying $3 million as non-essential.
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#30> It receives less than 1 percent Why do they keep saying they receive almost nothing, yet at the same time say government funding is essential to their operation?
Because the bulk of NPRs funding comes from the dues of member stations most of which are non-profits and receive funding from a myriad of sources.
Hard to say what percent of their funding comes from some governmental source but it’s all indirect and arms length.
A lot of folks confuse NPR With PBS which is publicly funded and many of NPR’s member stations are PBS affiliated.