It's actually not the same label. The Chinese and Russian ones are getting a state affiliated media. Given the way most of these media organizations work, I'd say state affiliated should be added to most media organizations.

I don't understand what the fuss is all about. This is like a kindergarden full of grown ups.

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.

Disingenuous in the extreme. We might almost call that "disinformation."

1) Contributions from corporations and wealthy individuals are tax-deductible, and their pledge drives emphasize that. Those are not included in your "1 percent."

2) A good part of their budget comes from programming fees from affiliate stations, e.g. for the right to run Fresh Air, All Things Considered, Nature, or NOVA. Those stations, in turn, have 501(c)(3) status.

Then Twitter could label them "non-profit" instead of "government-funded" or "state-affiliated", both of which imply government influence or control.

So I guess you haven't seen the Twitter Files, where the government did exactly that.

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.

Hold on, 1/3 of what? What funding paid the dues back to CPB?

My local affiliate breaks it 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.

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-co...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/706290/npr-revenue/

So, as a correction it's closer to ~22.5%. Still a not insignificant amount.

A significant portion of that is state and local money

> 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.