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Less than 1% of NPR funding is from govt. Tesla and SpaceX get far more public money than NPR does. $7500 per vehicle subsidy. Lucrative NASA contracts.
by Lendal 3y ago
Less than 1% of NPR funding is from govt. Tesla and SpaceX get far more public money than NPR does. $7500 per vehicle subsidy. Lucrative NASA contracts.
- tehjoker 3y agoYou're forgetting the corporate funding and that their editorial line parrots the state department. Also, SpaceX deployed Starlink to provide guidance to (US provided) Ukrainian weapons. Field commanders said without it they wouldn't be in the fight. That sounds aligned with US foreign policy and statecraft to me. They backpedaled after the use of the technology became so aggressive it would be reputationally damaging for starlink. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64579267 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64579267
- mensetmanusman 3y agoSpaceX is a subsidy to the government now saving NASA hundreds of millions on launches.
- pclmulqdq 3y agoCitation needed. Several sources at the air force are saying that launches are more expensive from SpaceX than other providers.
- hersko 3y agoI imagine the only people saying that are those benefiting from the ULA contracts.
- pclmulqdq 3y agoCare to elaborate on how mid-level air force officers are "benefitting" from ULA contracts? A rocket is a rocket, buyers should be fairly vendor-agnostic.
- mensetmanusman 3y agohttps://medium.com/geekculture/spacex-vs-nasa-cost-4fae454823ac https://medium.com/geekculture/spacex-vs-nasa-cost-4fae45482... I would be interested in what cost/kg other providers are referencing.
- pclmulqdq 3y agoDelta and Soyuz rockets. NASA flights are horrendously expensive in comparison.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoSpaceX is still about 10x cheaper than Soyuz: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/space-launch-costs-growing-business-industry-rcna23488 https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/space-launch-costs-gro...
- uxp100 3y agoWikipedia says more like 11%, but it’s pretty complex. NPR produces programs that local stations play, and pay for. So while you might hear someone say they’re listening to NPR, they’re listening to a “member station,” that is paying NPR. They might get some money from federal grants, some from the corporation for public broadcasting, which is federally funded, some from member stations who get some federal grants. So I’m not sure if all the info you’d need to figure it out completely is public. I assume corporate sponsorship beats out federal funds by quite a bit though.
- RoyGBivCap 3y agoAt least 14%. From their own page: "Federal funding is essential to public radio's service to the American public and its continuation is critical for both stations and program producers, including NPR." >7% Federal appropriations via CPB >7% Federal, state, and local governments Source: https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finance... Furthermore, NPR was built by public funding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_for_Public_Broadcasting#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_for_Public_Broadca... >Tesla and SpaceX get far more public money than NPR does. And neither one is a media organization, so I'm not sure why that's even relevant.