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Honestly at this point in my life I don’t believe anybody can be editorially independent of their funding source no matter how hard they try. A label indicating
by dcow 4y ago
Honestly at this point in my life I don’t believe anybody can be editorially independent of their funding source no matter how hard they try. A label indicating accounts who receive government money despite what they claim about editorial independence seems like the move. Otherwise all the “propaganda outlets” will just claim independence. If the BBC is heavily subsidized then label it.
- dekhn 4y agoSure, you can't be truly editorially independent, but I'd say any fair evaluation of NPR's coverage would show that it is not a state mouthpiece, like Voice of America. It's an establishment mouthpiece (the state and the establishment aren't completely overlapping). This is America: you can bite the hand that feeds you and still be fed.