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NPR is not government-funded ... it is funded mostly by donations from wealthy listeners and corporations “Only 4 percent of funding in fiscal year 2017 came f
by cudgy 6y ago
NPR is not government-funded ... it is funded mostly by donations from wealthy listeners and corporations
“Only 4 percent of funding in fiscal year 2017 came from federal, state and local governments ...”
https://www.newsweek.com/where-does-npr-get-its-funding-calls-defund-outlet-met-calls-donate-1529009 https://www.newsweek.com/where-does-npr-get-its-funding-call...
- gnicholas 6y agoI'd still consider something to be government-funded if they receive millions of dollars in funding from the government (wikipedia shows $200M in revenue in 2016). [1] It is relevant that this is a small portion of their budget, but generally when someone thinks "this shouldn't be funded by taxpayer dollars" they don't stop caring just because the millions of dollars spent only cover a small portion of the entity's total budget. Typically these arguments are ideological/philosophical, not matters of degree. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR
- throwaway894345 6y agoHuh, fair enough. At that point we may as well pull that remaining 4 percent then. Clearly they’d prefer to go in a different direction anyway.
- andrewmcwatters 6y agoNPR is government funded, and was established by Congress.