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NPR's immediate claim that only 1% of their money comes from federal funds is a bald-faced lie. It's completely contrary to the claims they've made on a regular
by rabite 4y ago
NPR's immediate claim that only 1% of their money comes from federal funds is a bald-faced lie. It's completely contrary to the claims they've made on a regular basis, that are present right this second on their own website.
https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finance...
Search for "Public Radio Station Revenues (FY20)" and you can plainly see a graph that states that 8% of their money comes from "Federal appropriation via CPB" and then another 5% comes from a combination of Federal, state, and local government sources.
The minute they get slapped with a state funded label they pretend that they only get 1% of their money from the government, in contrast to their reported finances for the past several decades. It is weasel word behavior to pretend that 8% of entirely federally sourced funds is irrelevant because it is passed through the CPB first (which is itself a state media agency, created by Congress in the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967)
- misssocrates 4y agoIt it was 1%, they would drop it to 0%. 1% wouldn't be worth the conflict.
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