NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) receives about half a billion dollars annually from Federal grants, and then channels that funding into subsidiaries like PBS and NPR.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cpb.org&#x2F;appropriation&#x2F;history" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cpb.org&#x2F;appropriation&#x2F;history</a><p>Funding from a benefactor is known to create bias.<p>I&#x27;m concerned about NPR&#x27;s statements which almost resembles some kind of pathology, because the statements look like a mix of denial and&#x2F;or rationalisation. We are seeing outright denial, that they only get a little bit of federal funding... or rationalisation like that funding is just a small portion of our tiny budget...<p>The fact is that in 2021 Public Radio received about ~$100 Million, and about the same in 2022. If these estimation are wrong, they are leaning towards the conservative side, and would likely go higher. I&#x27;m pulling the data from the CPB financial statements, and mostly glossing over the details, yanking data from the executive summary.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cpb.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;aboutcpb&#x2F;financials&#x2F;audited&#x2F;cpb_combinedstatements_fy2022.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cpb.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;aboutcpb&#x2F;financials&#x2F;audi...</a><p>Please, by all means dispute this data. I&#x27;d love to be persuaded that this is all somehow wrong. But right now it looks like NPR &amp; PBS are both affiliated with the Federal government because they get significant funding from there, alongside donations.