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When Chinese and Russian state propaganda channels are getting the same label for a different situation, it’s a bit off. Your (and Elons) argument has shades o

When Chinese and Russian state propaganda channels are getting the same label for a different situation, it’s a bit off. Your (and Elons) argument has shades of the famous ‘with us or against us’ line. Details matter.

rjzzleep 4y ago
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- daemoens 4y ago
  Because the NPR receives almost no money from the federal government. Read the article. It receives less than 1 percent of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
  - AlbertCory 4y ago
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    - eppsilon 4y ago
      Then Twitter could label them "non-profit" instead of "government-funded" or "state-affiliated", both of which imply government influence or control.
      - AlbertCory 4y ago
        So I guess you haven't seen the Twitter Files, where the government did exactly that.
  - PathOfEclipse 4y ago
    From Wikipedia: Although NPR receives less than 1% of its direct funding from the federal government, member stations (which pay dues amounting to approximately one third of NPR's revenue), tend to receive far larger portions of their budgets from state governments, and also the US government through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. 1/3 isn't 100%, but it's also far from insignificant.
    - relaxing 4y ago
      Hold on, 1/3 of what? What funding paid the dues back to CPB? My local affiliate breaks their funding down as 50% member support, 40% corporate/charitable underwriting, 10% state/local govt funding. Maybe other NPR affiliates also get federal grants, but this one doesn’t. Seems like we’re back to a pretty small fraction of funding for the US State to exert hard control over the content produced.
      - PathOfEclipse 4y ago
        According to these links, in 2021 it ended up being 70 million of taxpayer money out of a total revenue of 300 million: https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3551625-the-time-has-come-defund-the-hopelessly-biased-npr/ https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3551625-the-time-has-co... https://www.statista.com/statistics/706290/npr-revenue/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/706290/npr-revenue/ So, as a correction it's closer to ~22.5%. Still a not insignificant amount.
        relaxing 4y ago
        A significant portion of that is state and local money
    - dragonwriter 4y ago
      > 1/3 isn’t 100%, but it’s also far from insignificant. It gets 1/3 from member stations, which get “far more” than 1% from various levels of government. “Far more than 1%” of 1/3 does not mean “1/3”. It’s actually, IIRC, about another 4% of NPRs funding that indirectly comes from government this way, bringing NPR to about 5% government funding, including indirect government funding through its members stations.

rjzzleep 4y ago

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daemoens 4y ago
Because the NPR receives almost no money from the federal government. Read the article. It receives less than 1 percent of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
- AlbertCory 4y ago
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  - eppsilon 4y ago
    Then Twitter could label them "non-profit" instead of "government-funded" or "state-affiliated", both of which imply government influence or control.
    - AlbertCory 4y ago
      So I guess you haven't seen the Twitter Files, where the government did exactly that.
- PathOfEclipse 4y ago
  From Wikipedia: Although NPR receives less than 1% of its direct funding from the federal government, member stations (which pay dues amounting to approximately one third of NPR's revenue), tend to receive far larger portions of their budgets from state governments, and also the US government through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. 1/3 isn't 100%, but it's also far from insignificant.
  - relaxing 4y ago
    Hold on, 1/3 of what? What funding paid the dues back to CPB? My local affiliate breaks their funding down as 50% member support, 40% corporate/charitable underwriting, 10% state/local govt funding. Maybe other NPR affiliates also get federal grants, but this one doesn’t. Seems like we’re back to a pretty small fraction of funding for the US State to exert hard control over the content produced.
    - PathOfEclipse 4y ago
      According to these links, in 2021 it ended up being 70 million of taxpayer money out of a total revenue of 300 million: https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3551625-the-time-has-come-defund-the-hopelessly-biased-npr/ https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3551625-the-time-has-co... https://www.statista.com/statistics/706290/npr-revenue/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/706290/npr-revenue/ So, as a correction it's closer to ~22.5%. Still a not insignificant amount.
      - relaxing 4y ago
        A significant portion of that is state and local money
  - dragonwriter 4y ago
    > 1/3 isn’t 100%, but it’s also far from insignificant. It gets 1/3 from member stations, which get “far more” than 1% from various levels of government. “Far more than 1%” of 1/3 does not mean “1/3”. It’s actually, IIRC, about another 4% of NPRs funding that indirectly comes from government this way, bringing NPR to about 5% government funding, including indirect government funding through its members stations.