Scientific American

  • geogle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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.