NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-affiliated media'

Re:NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-a... by ceejayoz on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @09:26PM (#35549624)

Scroll up the thread; your question is already answered. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35542645

Federal funding isn't critical to NPR, but it's important to the public radio ecosystem of small local stations, who get ~13% of their funding from government.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-a... by wyager on Thursday April 13, 2023 @02:10PM (#35559628)

So evidently NPR disagrees with the "it's just a small percentage, who cares" judgement (until that judgment being on their website becomes embarrassing)

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-a... by ceejayoz on Thursday April 13, 2023 @04:04PM (#35561359)

"We don't want our customers being unable to afford our products" is, I suspect, a common opinion among businesses. I'm not sure why you'd find it surprising.

Walmart wants people to spend their food stamps on their groceries. Tesla wants people to use the EV tax credits on their cars. They don't get accused of being government controlled because of it.

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