NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'

Post by ceejayoz » Wed, Apr 12, 2023, 5:24 PM UTC

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As the article indicates, those stations receive an average of 8% from CPB, and 5% from Federal/state/local government. The other 87% comes from elsewhere - 43% of it as individual donations. If they're "government funded" as a result, slap the label on Walmart and McDonalds. They can't operate without Federal funding, either. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/walmart-and-mcdonalds-among-...

Are you suggesting that Walmart and McDonald's receive more in government subsidies than they pay in taxes?

Post by kskdodo » Wed, Apr 12, 2023, 5:24 PM UTC

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Strange that labelling medias with their true funding diminishes their credibility so much that they’d flee to any place where this information is not disclosed.

I suspect this is a bad-faith argument, but just to be clear, NPR get's a tiny fraction of its funding from the government *and* maintains editorial independence. > The news organization says that is inaccurate and misleading, given that NPR is a private, nonprofit company with editorial independence. It receives less than 1 percent of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Br…

Post by chowchowchow » Wed, Apr 12, 2023, 5:25 PM UTC

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So https://www.publicstorage.com/ is government controlled?

Hmm, I see your point. Names can indeed be misleading.

Post by anigbrowl » Wed, Apr 12, 2023, 5:26 PM UTC

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> no mention of Mastodon in this announcement Mastodon blew its moment. It could have eaten Twitter’s lunch. But onboarding—specifically, choosing a server—was too tedious for non-niche adoption.

Everyone likes to blame the server interface, but honestly that's not so bad and I think most people get over it. Mastodon's real problem in my opinion is that its primary audience today doesn't actually want anyone new to join - it's VERY toxic for newcomers who don't fit a specific mold. It's a shame, cause we really do need something new. I'm hoping some of the new decentralized ones take off. Edit: I think the co…

Post by soulofmischief » Wed, Apr 12, 2023, 5:26 PM UTC

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for some reason I'm annoyed by all the @ symbols in these new things

Yah, the one thing that I like about bluesky is their name-spacing: “sports.npr.org”