The only government funded news in the US is VOA. The CPB gives out grants but public media are all responsible for their own budgets and a lot of them (notably

The only government funded news in the US is VOA. The CPB gives out grants but public media are all responsible for their own budgets and a lot of them (notably NPR and it's largest affiliates in NYC and LA) have been crushed by a drop in ad revenue and cutting back severely on content production.