It's pretty funny that two big dramatic things in #USPolitics right now is Thomas taking vacations with friends (how dare he not disclose that?!) and NPR accepting money from the US government (how dare #Twitter disclose that?!).
Well, funny might not be the right word.
It's sad. But this is Fediverse.
@volkris
In other words:
1- how dare a Supreme Court judge not respect the law ?
2- how dare Twitter categorize a news organization as "state-funded" when it's not?
Some people care about law and order, apparently.
You have both complaints factually backwards.
It's funny because even these news organizations are admitting that they are state-funded--and seriously who even denies that?--as they maintain that the state funding they receive is small.
It's one thing to say we should be clear that the funding is a small part of the budget. It's another to deny that they funding they received doesn't happen.
@volkris it's a play on words. If you were gifted just the books for your university courses from the State and had to pay the tuition and all the rest, you wouldn't say your education is "state-funded", would you?
I absolutely would!
Hell just today I was hearing an ad from a liberal arts college in the US that is very proud of not being funded by the US government at all, including indirectly through students taking out subsidized loans.
Funding is funding. NPR accepts funding from the federal government, so it is federally funded, and there's nothing wrong with pointing that out. They are welcome to stop taking that money, in which case they would no longer be federally funded, but apparently it's worth it for them to take it. And there's nothing strange about that.
It's like, NPR often runs little disclaimers that they accept money from other organizations that they report on, so why not embrace this one too?
And again, it's always this weird thing where they keep trying to say it's such an insignificant amount of money... which fine, then if it is so little, maybe they should stop taking it so that they can have total independence from a government that they would be reporting on.
But so long as NPR and PBS accept government funding, they are main government funded. Again, not there's anything wrong with that.
@volkris @Alexandrad1
Are we having yet another discussion about "Independent Media"? I agree there's never been such a thing as truly Independent Media.😎
