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There’s absolutely state-funded media in the U.S. It just doesn’t encompass as much as those in the UK or Australia. C-Span is a good example.
by jordan_curve 6y ago
There’s absolutely state-funded media in the U.S. It just doesn’t encompass as much as those in the UK or Australia.
C-Span is a good example.
- lwf 6y agoThe Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network[1] isn't publicly funded, no. PBS, NPR, and, via the Corporation for Public Broadcasting[2], lots of individual, independent local radio and television stations. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-SPAN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-SPAN [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_for_Public_Broadcasting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_for_Public_Broadca...
- clairity 6y agonpr gets like 2% of its funding from public sources, despite being national public radio. they're as beholden to moneyed and corporate interests as nytimes, and as partisan and outrage-oriented too. i stopped donating years ago.
- JPKab 6y agoI had to stop as well. The article defending looting was absolutely a breaking point.
- clairity 6y agonot sure which article was your breaking point, but for me, it's been a steady downhill slide for at least 5 years, with the complete whiff on the run-up to the 2016 election being a real wake-up-and-take-stock affair.