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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by relaxing on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:56PM (#35546767)
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.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by PathOfEclipse on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @06:30PM (#35547954)
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.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by relaxing on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @07:25PM (#35548497)
A significant portion of that is state and local money
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