vegeta@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 months agoWhite House calls NPR and PBS a “grift,” will ask Congress to rescind fundingarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square56linkfedilinkarrow-up1417arrow-down14cross-posted to: usa@midwest.social
arrow-up1413arrow-down1external-linkWhite House calls NPR and PBS a “grift,” will ask Congress to rescind fundingarstechnica.comvegeta@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square56linkfedilinkcross-posted to: usa@midwest.social
minus-squareVitoRobleslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoYep. NPR operates independently of the U.S. government. And while federal money is important to the overall public media system, NPR gets less than 1% of its annual budget, on average, from federal sources. https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168158549/twitter-npr-state-affiliated-media
Yep.
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168158549/twitter-npr-state-affiliated-media