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Twitter have got the govenrment-funded label on VoA now. But not the BBC, curiously. > some personal beef the owner has with NPR NPR is a bogeyman of the Amer

Twitter have got the govenrment-funded label on VoA now. But not the BBC, curiously. > some personal beef the owner has with NPR NPR is a bogeyman of the American right-wing media, which Musk seems to be consuming an awful lot of in recent years.

empressplay 4y ago
The BBBC is funded by TV license fees so their funding is more arms length, also they make money through BBC Worldwide and collaborations with external media companies like HBO. As such they commonly shit on the government of the day, no matter who it is
- justin66 4y ago
  I don't know how you'd apply measurement using the length of arms and conclude that BBC receives less money than NPR from the government. In any case, editorial influence is a lot more important, and that's where the BBC is falling down lately. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/15/the-guardian-view-on-bbc-independence-compromised-at-the-top https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/15/the-gu...
throwaway8582 4y ago
> But not the BBC, curiously You should check these things before posting. It says "Government-funded Media" right at the top of the page here: https://twitter.com/BBC https://twitter.com/BBC
- justin66 4y ago
  I shit you not: it did not an hour ago.
  - Spivak 4y ago
    https://archive.ph/VJhTR https://archive.ph/VJhTR recorded on 12 Apr 2023 07:43:40 UTC.
  - deleted 4y ago
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  - stickfigure 4y ago
    ...and another hour later it says "Publicly funded media". Someone is winging it.
  - drak0n1c 4y ago
    It was there yesterday from what I recall. However, there are like 10 variant official accounts of BBC. Only one had the label at first. Similar to how NPR has multiple accounts but only the "main" one had the label. Twitter should be more consistent in labeling all accounts under a company if this is the new policy.
    - jacquesm 4y ago
      Twitter will be consistent when Elon Musk is no longer its owner.
- jjulius 4y ago
  >It says "Government-funded Media"... It currently says "Publicly funded media", not "Government-funded Media", and that muddies the waters a bit - publicly-funded doesn't necessarily mean government-funded. Not sure if it said "Gov-funded" an hour ago when you commented or not, as the other person who replied to you suggests that changes to these statements appear to be pretty fluid at the moment.
  - justin66 4y ago
    "Publicly funded media" seems like a decent way of characterizing NPR. At some point one might question what Twitter and its users are getting out of all this labeling and relabeling, though. How many users are going to have an I had no idea NPR was publicly funded media but now I know epiphany when encountering that label? > Not sure if it said "Gov-funded" an hour ago when you commented or not I am pretty sure all the observations made on labels in this thread were accurate at the moment they were made.
  - mcguire 4y ago
    That is Musk's renaming of the "state affiliated" label originally applied to NPR, PBS, and the BBC.

empressplay 4y ago

The BBBC is funded by TV license fees so their funding is more arms length, also they make money through BBC Worldwide and collaborations with external media companies like HBO. As such they commonly shit on the government of the day, no matter who it is

justin66 4y ago
I don't know how you'd apply measurement using the length of arms and conclude that BBC receives less money than NPR from the government. In any case, editorial influence is a lot more important, and that's where the BBC is falling down lately. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/15/the-guardian-view-on-bbc-independence-compromised-at-the-top https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/15/the-gu...

throwaway8582 4y ago

> But not the BBC, curiously You should check these things before posting. It says "Government-funded Media" right at the top of the page here: https://twitter.com/BBC https://twitter.com/BBC

justin66 4y ago
I shit you not: it did not an hour ago.
- Spivak 4y ago
  https://archive.ph/VJhTR https://archive.ph/VJhTR recorded on 12 Apr 2023 07:43:40 UTC.
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
- stickfigure 4y ago
  ...and another hour later it says "Publicly funded media". Someone is winging it.
- drak0n1c 4y ago
  It was there yesterday from what I recall. However, there are like 10 variant official accounts of BBC. Only one had the label at first. Similar to how NPR has multiple accounts but only the "main" one had the label. Twitter should be more consistent in labeling all accounts under a company if this is the new policy.
  - jacquesm 4y ago
    Twitter will be consistent when Elon Musk is no longer its owner.
jjulius 4y ago
>It says "Government-funded Media"... It currently says "Publicly funded media", not "Government-funded Media", and that muddies the waters a bit - publicly-funded doesn't necessarily mean government-funded. Not sure if it said "Gov-funded" an hour ago when you commented or not, as the other person who replied to you suggests that changes to these statements appear to be pretty fluid at the moment.
- justin66 4y ago
  "Publicly funded media" seems like a decent way of characterizing NPR. At some point one might question what Twitter and its users are getting out of all this labeling and relabeling, though. How many users are going to have an I had no idea NPR was publicly funded media but now I know epiphany when encountering that label? > Not sure if it said "Gov-funded" an hour ago when you commented or not I am pretty sure all the observations made on labels in this thread were accurate at the moment they were made.
- mcguire 4y ago
  That is Musk's renaming of the "state affiliated" label originally applied to NPR, PBS, and the BBC.