Posted on 04/09/2023 7:02:32 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The credentialed class is ripe for a fall, and nowhere is this more evident than in the media.
In a move that is every bit as hilarious as it is accurate, Twitter on April 4 labeled the official NPR account as “US state-affiliated media.” NPR staffers and ideological allies were quick to vent their anger over the apt description. Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk was unfazed. In an April 5 tweet, he highlighted the company’s definition of state-affiliated media as “outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution.”
“Seems accurate,” Musk wrote above the excerpt.
NPR rejected the label as “untrue” in an April 5 article posted on its website, despite acknowledging that it is funded by Washington. “NPR operates independently of the US government,” the report claimed. “And while federal money is important to the overall public media system, NPR gets less than 1% of its annual budget, on average, from federal sources.”
The “less than 1%” argument is one NPR loves to trot out whenever it is confronted, yet it still shrieks to high Heaven at the mere suggestion that federal funding be taken away. Something doesn’t add up there.
“NPR stands for freedom of speech and holding the powerful accountable. It is unacceptable for Twitter to label us this way. A vigorous, vibrant free press is essential to the health of our democracy,” CEO John Lansing is quoted as saying in the article.
Then, seemingly oblivious to the fact that it was strengthening the argument of its critics, NPR leaned on the Biden administration to vouch for its journalistic integrity. “When asked about Twitter’s decision during the White House’s daily briefing, press secretary Karine...
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NPR is full of woke political hackery.
Gov’t support of it is inflationary and theft from children.
They know damn well that they are a hard left news and entertainment agency. They just think that they are correct and everyone on the right is wrong. Sort of like presidential debate moderators.
publican congress continues to fund NPR and PBS, then it will be obvious and beyond doubt that they are not serious people.
” $26.67M - PBS support; $22.84M - grants for radio programming/national program production/acquisition; $22.25M - CPB administrative costs; $7.00M - Radio Program Fund.”
We ought to jam NPR.
Why hasn’t CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, Wash Post, NY Times,... and many others been labeled the same yet???
That’s just it, they are hard left, but they are anti govt when a Republican is in office. I am sure they will point to the anti Trump record to prive Musk wrong.
Let’s see their tax returns. When government support as defined on a Form 990 comes in at 1.0% or less, I will believe them.
Do they not get tax dollars?
If so then they are government affiliated.
Pledge $10,000 now and we'll send you this special Nina Toten Bag for your Whole Foods arugula.
Sorry Lansing, you and the White House are both full of sh!t.
5.56mm
How much is laundered through other organizations? For example, do individual stations get big federal and state grants which are then sent back to NPR to pay for programming?
“...we’ll send you this special Nina Toten Bag for your Whole Foods arugula.”
Whole lotta comedic punch jammed into a small word-count package right there.
Eliciting a goofball-sounding LOL from OGINJ in case you needed to know that.
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That, too!
Don’t forget that they’re also a non-profit which is kind of an in-kind contribution from the government to NPR.
“Karine KarenJean-PierreKaren”, aka Cabbage Patch Karine.
So the Deep State pinky promises that NPR is not government controlled?
Gee, that’s meaningful.
Biden vouching for NPR is like the Kim Jung Un vouching for Korean Central Broadcasting Committee
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