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Didn’t this happen like 5 months ago?
Yep
They’ll never stop leaving.
They’ll never quit quitting!
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Again? Amazing. Musk can make people leave who already left.
This is an old article.
They have a great bot on Mastodon.
This happened in April…
Don’t they literally receive funding from the US government?
They do, but it’s a very small part of their total financing (less than 1% I think), and they don’t have government appointed staff or anything like that.
This is a common misconception. NPR does not receive any of the US federal budget. They just apply for and win federal grants like many others can.
Twitter didn’t say they had government appointed staff. They said they were “state affiliated”. Which you just confirmed as 100% true.
Then nearly every industry is state affiliated.
Based on Twitter definitions of state affiliated, govt funded, and public funded, NPR aligns the least with state affiliated and most with publicly funded, right?
Don’t expect right-wing people to actually consider anything other than alternative facts.
Affiliated means close formal or informal association. I think 1% of funding and no government appointed people really doesn’t rise to that standard.
Hard disagree. If you receive 1% of your overall funding from one organization, that’s a close formal association. It doesn’t automatically mean their reporting is compromised or anything else you might assume comes along with that tag, but it definitely does apply in this case.
No more than you can say that about any organization/business that has ever received a grant or government contracts. This is a common misconception. They are not in the budget for US.
By Musk’s definition SpaceX is “funded by the state.” And far more than NPR is.
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In an email to staff explaining the decision, Lansing wrote, “It would be a disservice to the serious work you all do here to continue to share it on a platform that is associating the federal charter for public media with an abandoning of editorial independence or standards.”
For years, many journalists considered Twitter critical to monitoring news developments, to connect with people at major events and with authoritative sources, and to share their coverage.
PBS, which also receives money from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the BBC, which is funded by a uniform license fee charged to British television viewers, are among those whose Twitter accounts were given the same designation.
For example, NPR joined with other media organizations to press the Obama administration for access to closed hearings involving detainees held by U.S. authorities at Guantanamo Bay.
In his exchanges with NPR reporter Allyn, Musk said he was relying on a Wikipedia page dedicated to “publicly funded broadcasters” to determine which accounts should receive the label.
When pressed for how he justifies the disclaimer considering NPR receives meager funding from the government and has complete editorial independence, Musk veered into conspiratorial territory.
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