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

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Post by vuln »

scarface74 wrote: post #740
d23 wrote: post #722

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As biased as Fox News is, it would be completely ridiculous to call it state-affiliated media.

How much more “state affiliated” can you get than when Trump was in office he spent most of his day watching FoxNews and called it when he didn’t like the coverage and they acquiesced? This is not some conspiracy theory. It was very much out in the open. Even more recently, the house speaker gave Fox preferred access to the Jan 6th video.

> This is not some conspiracy theory. It was very much out in the open.

Do you have any evidence of this?

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Post by detaro »

Georgelemental wrote: post #747
gaoshan wrote: post #483

State affiliated media indicates state run media... i.e. propaganda for the State. NPR is in no way propaganda for the State. It's probably the furthest a media outlet could be from such a thing. This as an example of people putting their own political ideologies above all else and labeling the things that don't necessarily support them as propaganda. It's wrong and short sighted.

NPR are totally propaganda for the State, 100%, without reservation. (I used to be a regular listener, back when they were tolerable)

One would've expected a much larger shift in reporting with changing governments if that were true.

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Post by khochesh_kushat »

yossarian1408 wrote: post #502
bagels wrote: post #317

Should Twitter itself get a state sponsored label for getting concessions from San Francisco on their headquarters? https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-controller-hails-... Should Elon's account (or SpaceX or Telsa) have the same label because of their significant government funding? It's hard to see this as anything but silly politics games.

Twitter, SpaceX and Tesla are not newspapers/publishers. The reason for labelling news organisations' government affiliations is for the viewer/reader to understand that there may or may not be bias, and where the funding is coming from. If NPR's government contributions are embarrassing for the organisation, it might be best for them to forgo that funding. Additionally, if there's no influence/bias, then why does it…

The label doesn't say anything about publishing or printing a newspaper, it says media. Social media is surely media?

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Post by AlbertCory »

d23 wrote: post #716
yossarian1408 wrote: post #502

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Twitter, SpaceX and Tesla are not newspapers/publishers. The reason for labelling news organisations' government affiliations is for the viewer/reader to understand that there may or may not be bias, and where the funding is coming from. If NPR's government contributions are embarrassing for the organisation, it might be best for them to forgo that funding. Additionally, if there's no influence/bias, then why does it…

NPR is not nor has it ever been state-affiliated media in any reasonable sense of the word. Is it a full stop, bald-face lie.

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Post by orblivion »

d23 wrote: post #716
yossarian1408 wrote: post #502

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter, SpaceX and Tesla are not newspapers/publishers. The reason for labelling news organisations' government affiliations is for the viewer/reader to understand that there may or may not be bias, and where the funding is coming from. If NPR's government contributions are embarrassing for the organisation, it might be best for them to forgo that funding. Additionally, if there's no influence/bias, then why does it…

NPR is not nor has it ever been state-affiliated media in any reasonable sense of the word. Is it a full stop, bald-face lie.

I agree and wasn't fond of the "state-affiliated" label but they switched to "government funded" which I agree with.

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Post by khochesh_kushat »

meerita wrote: post #730
bagels wrote: post #317

Should Twitter itself get a state sponsored label for getting concessions from San Francisco on their headquarters? https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-controller-hails-... Should Elon's account (or SpaceX or Telsa) have the same label because of their significant government funding? It's hard to see this as anything but silly politics games.

I didn't realized Twitter was a media company and not a social network.

It's right there in the name, social media.

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Post by jackson1442 »

reso wrote: post #734

This seems perfectly fair to me and I don't understand the controversy. Maybe in the US people see "State Affiliated" as some kind of an insult? Public broadcasters like the BBC and Al Jazeera have done extraordinary work at times. That being said it would only be fair to also include a badge for private media corporations that says who their parent corporation is.

Typically the State Affiliated badge is only applied to accounts where editorial control is in the hands of the state - think Chinese and Russian media companies.

Also interesting- after the change, NPR's badge says "Government-funded media" while the BBC's badge says "Publicly funded media," at least in the US. Al Jazeera does not have any such badge, other than the gold "Official Organization" badge.

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Post by AlbertCory »

daemoens wrote: post #727
rjzzleep wrote: post #602

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Because the NPR receives almost no money from the federal government. Read the article. It receives less than 1 percent of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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Post by anonymouskimmer »

Georgelemental wrote: post #750
anonymouskimmer wrote: post #744

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> 56% of political contributions directly to candidates from private donors who gave over $100,000, went to Democrats. > NPR is an ally of the preferred political party of the rich. In order to infer the second statement from the first, first you have to demonstrate that >50% of political donors (not donations) of greater than $100,000 were from Democrats. Perhaps Democract-leaning donors were merely motivated to mak…

The website I linked bins per-donor, not per-donation. Of donations from donors who gave over $100,000 total, more went to Democrats than to Republicans.

> Of donors giving more than $100,000 to a candidate or party, 19.09% favored Democrats and 15.02% gave to Republicans.

The really interesting thing in that website is that big spenders favor PACs over either party.

And Democrats win out with donations over Republicans in all monetary categories, not just the $100k+.

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