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Re:NPR cancels 4 podcasts amid major layoffs by GreedClarifies on Friday March 24, 2023 @05:14PM (#35295636)
CPB gets almost 500M/year from the federal government. 50% of CPB's budget goes to public radio stations. Budget of NPR is 300M.

I'm going to say that any claim that NPR's public financing is very low (1% or 5%) is either malicious splitting of hairs or outright lying.

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Re:NPR cancels 4 podcasts amid major layoffs by kbelder on Friday March 24, 2023 @06:26PM (#35296525)
If less than 4% of their funding came from the state, they wouldn't fight so hard to keep it coming. If the state contribution was that low, it would be in NPR's best interest to just get off it entirely.
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