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Is "National Car Rental" state-affiliated? "National Geographic"?
Do you think the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a democracy, too?
NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
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#52Is 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…
34% of their budget comes from CPB, which is federal funding for local radio stations, and which NPR gets the money through local stations. They downplay this funding source and only mention the 1-4% that they get directly from local/state/federal government sources but clearly NPR would be dead without federal funding.
[1] https://gigafact.org/fact-briefs/does-npr-receive-less-1-its...
Re: NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
#53> 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 every penny counts. What business would turn around and say : "We don't need that 1%, you can have it back".
It's state affiliated. Like Tesla. Like any company who received covid relief. Tax breaks etc.
Less than 1 percentage is simply not influential. It's disingenuous to say it's owned by the government.
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The National Rifle Association is probably more government affiliated than NPR
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#55? 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..
Do you have references? I’m surprised I haven’t heard this previously.
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as others have mentioned Twitter and Tesla get more government funds than NPR. The US governments budget is pretty big and handouts are plenty
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You should consider the context of using that label on Twitter, not just the label name itself. State-affiliated label on Twitter means something as "biased", it's not used on its pure definition in a vacuum. That's the problem.
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#58? 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..
> they removed the state-affiliated media, from a ton of global times and CCT affiliated content creators
Source? Global Times’ Twitter accounts appears properly labelled [1].
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#59We should all be quitting twitter tbh