It’s not. NPR gets its revenues from member stations that buy the rights to the content.
It takes some government grants to support certain reporting and special projects but it doesn’t, directly, need government support for operations.
It’s member stations may take more government funding (I’ve seen numbers up to 10% but much of that is usually state funding not federal) - which it then uses to buy programming from NPR but that’s an arms length transaction.
By far the vast amount of public radio funds come from donations. You could remove all government funding and it would only really affect smaller, rural stations - the ones that mostly need governmental support.
A lot of people want to accuse NPR of having a liberal bias because of its governmental funding. Bias is hard to argue objectivelybut if you want to make the case that NPR is biased based on funding it would be more apt to say that it’s because most of their funding likely comes directly from its liberal leaning listeners.
PBS which is a similar organization for TV takes a slightly higher amount of government funding but that’s a similar setup.
Literally on your own link and in the same sentence:
"Presently, NPR receives funding for less than 1% of its budget directly from the federal government, but receives almost 10% of its budget from federal, state, and local governments indirectly."
mikeryan|2 years ago
It takes some government grants to support certain reporting and special projects but it doesn’t, directly, need government support for operations.
It’s member stations may take more government funding (I’ve seen numbers up to 10% but much of that is usually state funding not federal) - which it then uses to buy programming from NPR but that’s an arms length transaction.
By far the vast amount of public radio funds come from donations. You could remove all government funding and it would only really affect smaller, rural stations - the ones that mostly need governmental support.
A lot of people want to accuse NPR of having a liberal bias because of its governmental funding. Bias is hard to argue objectivelybut if you want to make the case that NPR is biased based on funding it would be more apt to say that it’s because most of their funding likely comes directly from its liberal leaning listeners.
PBS which is a similar organization for TV takes a slightly higher amount of government funding but that’s a similar setup.
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throwwwaway69|2 years ago
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foobarbecue|2 years ago
Yours?
throwwwaway69|2 years ago
"Presently, NPR receives funding for less than 1% of its budget directly from the federal government, but receives almost 10% of its budget from federal, state, and local governments indirectly."
unknown|2 years ago
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