Only about 15% of PBS and 1% of NPR come from federal funding. The vast majority of both come directly from community, non-profit, and corporate support. The Voice of America is the only state funded media.
There is a separate discussion about whether or not that is actually good for a society, or just adds a path for state-influenced propaganda.
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Only about 15% of PBS and 1% of NPR come from federal funding. The vast majority of both come directly from community, non-profit, and corporate support. The Voice of America is the only state funded media.
There is a separate discussion about whether or not that is actually good for a society, or just adds a path for state-influenced propaganda.
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I think in a perfect world you’d have access to both and both public and private funded news would be around the same in popularity.
I think the issue in the US right now is that it’s pretty much only private and no public funded news.
One of the major problems with PBS and NPR is they aren’t publicly funded enough so they have to get a lot of funding from billionaires’ foundations.
Oh no, please, let the billionaires keep their money! They worked so hard for it.
When their foundations fund NPR, that’s the editorial line that gets taken, yes.
¿por qué no los dos?
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They’d be some of the better tools to keep someone like trump from getting in power. Nothing is safe anywhere when someone like trump is in power.
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