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Ragequitting is also degrading to NPR.
by TigeriusKirk 3y ago
Ragequitting is also degrading to NPR.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoWhy engage on the platform when it’s rigged by a narcissist? Like the Greyrock method, disengage. Twitter only has value so long as it has network effect. People leaving diminish it. So why not?
- sneak 3y ago[flagged]
- toomuchtodo 3y agoTesla and SpaceX combined have obtained $5 billion in subsidies from the US government. NPR’s budget subsidy is less than one percent (~$3M). The label is not accurate, it’s a weapon of childish behavior.
- byyll 3y ago[flagged]
- AlgorithmicTime 3y ago[dead]
- sneak 3y agoAre Tesla or SpaceX media companies? I thought they were in manufacturing. You are comparing apples to oranges.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoIt feels like you’re attempting to make excuses for bad faith behavior through contortions of criteria. That is a choice, but not one I think that would stand up to scrutiny (based on the facts of the matter, Elon’s very public history of how he exists, operates, and “lashes out” whenever feeling challenged or sleighted). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law
- nailer 3y agoNo really SpaceX isn’t a media company.
- brandonagr2 3y agoThey have not. You are relying on a false headline that calls things like contracts, loans, zev credits from other automaters as ' government subsidies', which is obviously incorrect. Tesla is only just now receiving subsidies to produce batteries from the IRA that was passed last year, but previously had received no subsidies from the federal government
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- sp332 3y agoState funded is not the same as state affiliated. The government doesn't have any editorial control of NPR.
- Overtonwindow 3y agoTrue but it does lean heavily in one political direction. If it is receiving any federal funding then it should be pushed to neutrality, and remove the one-sidedness of their news programing. I think NPR would be very upset if the government required political neutrality as part of its funding.
- dpkirchner 3y agoNPR seems plenty neutral to me. Neutral is not defined as the midpoint between our two main US political parties (as your username would suggest you know). I always hear more than one side to each story, when they're long enough, and a good mix of brief stories about either side, positive and negative.
- FeloniousHam 3y agoI am a regular listener to at least Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and I can assure you their reporting is very biased to the Left. The credulous reporting of politically left ideas, policies, and positions on news stories without even strawman explanations of competing ideas is very frequent. I listen to podcasts for long form, fair discussions of issues, but NPR used to (seemed to?) hew to an objective ideal of reporting, and the new crew happily crusades for their team/goals.
- tstrimple 3y agoOr maybe your perception of what is actually neutral is too skewed by American political extremism. It seems any source that isn’t ranting about trans folk and teachers being groomers or that the 2020 election was stolen is somehow “left leaning” to many people in this country.
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- rcme 3y agoHaving standards and self respect isn't rage quitting.
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- rideontime 3y agoHow, specifically, does it degrade anybody to stop using Twitter?
- mwsfc 3y agoNot at all ragequitting and not degrading to NPR. Staying on the platform tacitly implies NPR accepts the label ...which would be degrading, from their perspective.
- nailer 3y agoIf NPR doesn’t wish to accept the label it should refuse government funding.
- orwin 3y agoSo any company accepting grants is a state-affiliated company? Honestly I kinda like it. I would extend it to any company accepting tax breaks. Imagine the headline 'The church of the Last days, a state-affiliated non-profit, is warning that the end is near'.
- dylan604 3y agoMcDonalds, a state funded eatery,... (because they accept tax breaks) Amazon, a state funded company,... (because they shopped around for the best tax breaks) Or any single other company that does what a company does by making any deal they can to better their bottom lines by taking tax breaks or gov't funding in any form would need to be called state funded. It sort of loses its stigma from that view point.
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- JohnFen 3y agoI think it speaks well of NPR.