By Harold Hutchison
Twitter altered National Public Radio’s (NPR) descriptive label Saturday to “government-funded media” after it initially labeled the radio news outlet “state-sponsored media.”
The social media site now calls NPR “government-funded media,” a designation also applied to the BBC. The original label was similar to that applied to Russia Today’s account by the social media site.
After Twitter issued the “state-affiliated media” label Tuesday, NPR changed its bio on the social media site to describe itself as “an independent news organization committed to informing the public about the world around us.” The news organization has not posted on Twitter since Tuesday.
Twitter removes NPR's 'state-affiliated' designation, replaces it with 'government funded' label https://t.co/8zX5tI85BM
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 9, 2023
NPR radio stations and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) television stations receive funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), according to the CPB’s website. The CPB is a non-profit corporation created in 1967 that receives funds via Congressional appropriations and passes it on to NPR and PBS stations, the CPB website says.
The United States government is forbidden from exercising “any direction, supervision, or control over the content or distribution of public telecommunications programs and services” under the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.
NPR President and CEO John Lansing criticized the social media site for applying the label Wednesday morning.
“NPR stands for freedom of speech & holding the powerful accountable,” Lansing tweeted. “A vigorous, vibrant free press is essential to the health of our democracy.”
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Harold Hutchison – SUPER reporting.
Taxpayer money should NOT be funding media period…If it can’t stand on it’s own two feet it doesn’t deserve to survive like any business. We are beyond the age of tv/radio with info available to all thru the internet where ALL sides are available not just the left which seems to be the priority of NPR/PBS.
I have stopped bothering with your vulgar posts.
But, here I am, shockingly, in complete agreement with you.
NPR and PBS are a propaganda arm of the Dems and Rinos. All you have to do is listen to their misinformation news reports.
Please provide an example of an NPR new story that has misinformation in it. To be so confidently claiming such, you must have examples to share.
An NPR station out of Michigan broadcast a live abortion over the airwaves a few months ago. No video, just audio of a life being terminated for all to hear. Is that a standard of decency? Is that in the public interest? Is that what a person needs to hear driving to work? I considered it so abhorrent I filed a complaint with the FCC. No doubt the standard of decency is out the window with a majority of media these days. However, taxpayer money should not fund a media group that allows or permits the live broadcasting of a life being snuffed out. If you believe NPR or PBS are not blatant political propaganda machines, you are gaslighting yourself.
Thank you Melissa. I would listen to them on my morning drive to work years ago and they kept telling us how wonderful everything was in Europe with all the socialized programs. Now they are supporting the neocon warmongers in Washington who want to keep sending our money to Ukraine. Soon they will be providing public service commercials for the military to get our sons and daughters to go fight in that God forsaken country to kill Russians.
Dan Jones- nice job parroting the usual talking points.
How about you use your brain and come up with some original thoughts to add to the conversation. What you are doing here is showing us just exactly what the problem is.
NPR has created an entire alternative reality for it’s listeners- which is why they are now feeling the pushback.
People that listen exclusively to NPR don’t even know what is really going on out here anymore.
I’m good with calling it what it is- government funded.
At least the masses can understand what they are consuming for information will have a pro-government slant to it.
It is what it is- and that is okay, as long as people fully understand the entire picture.
I’m very pleased this is finally making news. I gave them up years ago.
A YouTuber has been exposing NPR for a while now. All Things Re-Considererd – Peter Boghaasin (something like that) He calls for stopping donations.
PBS too, has become such a disappointment. They were my go to channel. Too woke now. Almost every program includes some degree of virtual signaling wokeism.
See YouTuber – Peter Boghgossian. (Something like that). I gave up NPR years ago. Couldn’t stand how biased they had become. I suspect it is much worse now.
I agree with R. Metivier, they are a propaganda machine. It takes time to ween oneself off of them.
Defund NPR and PBS of taxpayer money. They report no differently than privately owned media. Review who and what “contributes” to their not-for-profit public media, (Rockefeller Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Carnagie Foundation as well as many for-profit corporations – aka tax write offs) They can survive without congressional earmarks of taxpayer money greasing their wheels. A long running grifting scam that must end as it is no longer essential or necessary to our republic.