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Still state funded.
by pibechorro 3y ago
Still state funded.
- falcolas 3y agoGrants amounting to less than 1% of their total funding is hardly "state funded".
- kbelder 3y agoFrom what I understand, state funding is 30-40%. It's just indirectly funneled to the main NPR org through member stations.
- falcolas 3y agohttps://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finance... Perhaps worth reading from the horses' mouth as it were. Also, here's the financials for a member station near me: https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/4c/1d/4e0c21b44d2aa963c25f8bc9830b/fy21-kemc-audited-financial-report.pdf https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/4c/1d/4e0c21b44d2aa963c25f8bc9... Note that state contributions totaled less than 5% of their total revenue. The CPB grant, which could be stretched to be considered state/government contributions, was about 16% of their revenue. Given that member station contribution is 30% of NPR's total revenue, there's no chance that state funding is going to reach 30%-40% values.
- Tagbert 3y agoAnd even then it is a minority of the funding and only part of that is federal funds.
- efields 3y agoAnd those member stations rely on _local_ subscriptions to stay solvent. They need to engage with their communities in a way that the communities find useful. This basically is big govt working the right way. This framework enables local communities to support their local public broadcasting networks, which then contribute to the state and federal news via NPR, which is better at elevating the stories that matter to the nation.
- tacomonstrous 3y agoBy that criterion, Tesla is a lot more state funded than NPR: https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/tesla-inc https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/tesla-inc
- moose_man 3y agoSpaceX would practically belong to the Pentagon.
- jklinger410 3y agoVery true and yet completely irrelevant.
- tacomonstrous 3y agoSo you'd be fine with labeling Tesla a state-affiliated organization? I suppose that's at least consistent, though I don't see the utility of a label that applies so broadly.
- perardi 3y agoAnd that strident libertarian Peter Thiel is the chairperson of a company that makes its money off government contracts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies Must be nice to be a libertarian—lot of fat government subsidies seem to come their way.