PBS joins NPR in rage quitting Twitter over being accurately labeled government-funded

Why do they not want people to know they're funded by taxpayer dollars, supplemented by some amount of private donations? I've known that all my life. Seems silly.

Oh boy who could have seen this coming

(04-13-2023 01:13 PM)TripleA Wrote:  Why do they not want people to know they're funded by taxpayer dollars, supplemented by some amount of private donations? I've known that all my life. Seems silly.

Who doesn't know they are taxpayer funded? Like you said, I thought that was common knowledge.

(04-12-2023 07:29 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  

(04-12-2023 07:24 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  The last news organization that left twitter came crawling back in days.

Did they not get the same subsidies Elon got either?

Elon got subsidies for twitter? Thats news to me.

(04-13-2023 01:17 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(04-12-2023 07:29 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  

(04-12-2023 07:24 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  The last news organization that left twitter came crawling back in days.

Did they not get the same subsidies Elon got either?

Elon got subsidies for twitter? Thats news to me.

Musk's companies have received an estimated $4.9B in federal subsidies.

NPR receives $3M of their $300M annual operating budget from federal subsidies.

(04-13-2023 01:21 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  

(04-13-2023 01:17 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(04-12-2023 07:29 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  

(04-12-2023 07:24 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  The last news organization that left twitter came crawling back in days.

Did they not get the same subsidies Elon got either?

Elon got subsidies for twitter? Thats news to me.

Musk's companies have received an estimated $4.9B in federal subsidies.

NPR receives $3M of their $300M annual operating budget from federal subsidies.

For the f*cknut brains out there, you do realize there is a big difference between a media company (especially a state sponsored media company like NPR and PBS) and a company that builds and launches rockets?

Sounds like you guys need to put down Homosaurus and read a book that will actually increase your intelligence.

(04-13-2023 01:24 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(04-13-2023 01:21 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  

(04-13-2023 01:17 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(04-12-2023 07:29 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  

(04-12-2023 07:24 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  The last news organization that left twitter came crawling back in days.

Did they not get the same subsidies Elon got either?

Elon got subsidies for twitter? Thats news to me.

Musk's companies have received an estimated $4.9B in federal subsidies.

NPR receives $3M of their $300M annual operating budget from federal subsidies.

For the f*cknut brains out there, you do realize there is a big difference between a media company (especially a state sponsored media company like NPR and PBS) and a company that builds and launches rockets?

Not only is Musk the one making these claims, not NPR, not only does he receive orders of magnitudes more money from the government, he also owns a media company too, which means everything he's claiming applies to him too. Or did you all forget why you did a complete 180 for daddy musk in the first place?

It's like Inception levels of hypocrisy

(04-13-2023 01:21 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  

(04-13-2023 01:17 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(04-12-2023 07:29 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  

(04-12-2023 07:24 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  The last news organization that left twitter came crawling back in days.

Did they not get the same subsidies Elon got either?

Elon got subsidies for twitter? Thats news to me.

Musk's companies have received an estimated $4.9B in federal subsidies.

NPR receives $3M of their $300M annual operating budget from federal subsidies.

Misleading. See Post #85 above. It's actually 10%, indirectly. Plus, a large percentage beyond that comes from CPB (federally funded) and from affiliate fees from the 50 state affiliate networks, that are all partially or fully funded by state and/or local governments.

You are also comparing apples to oranges with Musk's subsidies at Tesla and Space-X. Those companies are not MEDIA companies.

The whole point is that NPR and PBS are government funded MEDIA. Twitter is NOT government funded. Try again.

(04-13-2023 01:16 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  Oh boy who could have seen this coming

Seen what coming?

So, the state sponsored media Co.s decided to not do the Twitter any longer.

Does someone actually care about that?

Who knew?

(04-13-2023 01:56 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  

(04-13-2023 01:16 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  Oh boy who could have seen this coming

Seen what coming?

So, the state sponsored media Co.s decided to not do the Twitter any longer.

Does someone actually care about that?

Who knew?

and when their ad-revenue drops like a rock for getting off of twitter, they will run back to nancy pelosi wanting more state sponsored news money.

(04-12-2023 01:05 PM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  What's NPR ???

It's the American TASS. It's that simple, like the BBC is to the Brits, NPR is to the Americans.

(04-13-2023 01:21 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  

(04-13-2023 01:17 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(04-12-2023 07:29 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  

(04-12-2023 07:24 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  The last news organization that left twitter came crawling back in days.

Did they not get the same subsidies Elon got either?

Elon got subsidies for twitter? Thats news to me.

Musk's companies have received an estimated $4.9B in federal subsidies.

NPR receives $3M of their $300M annual operating budget from federal subsidies.

If that's actually the case, then why not go ahead and cut all government funding for NPR? I mean, if it's just a tiny percentage, they won't miss it.

Take that suggestion to your Dem reps and see what response you get.

In relevant news, Parler is officially shutting down. Turns out conservative safe space media isn't a winning business model

(04-14-2023 02:12 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  In relevant news, Parler is officially shutting down. Turns out conservative safe space media isn't a winning business model

No need for it now that Twitter has ceased to silence conservatives. Losing business models seem to be more liberal talk shows.

prog filth used to love elon

i remember


bwahahahahahahaha


just like ive said, the filth hate everyone including themselves. if you dont know it yet hang around, they will eventually hate you too.

(04-12-2023 08:58 AM)Kyle Mack Wrote:  They are butt hurt because Musk slapped a US State Media label on them lol.

But that label was meant to be used for OTHER countries. Lol. Ours own have always gotten a pass.

Our other media outlets are just as part of the government as NPR. Who gives them access to information, does their research, provides footage, provides the tax breaks and incentives carved out for them that function the same as cash payments, who flys them to war zones for the propaganda pieces and decides who gets to be embedded, who decides who gets to ask questions at WH press briefings etc

There are thousands of ways the government controls the media. The business could not make enough money to function without government money.

Basically the same with Holloywood and the DOD. Who pays for all that military equipment in movies, the sets, props etc. We do. But the government takes certain amounts of control over the script as compensation. They get rewrites, they get edits, the change characters, storylines, dialogue, and on and on.

Are movie studios free to turn them down? Sure. But they can’t make the movies they want without help no matter how much they pay. There is no way to make the product without giving the government control.

(04-14-2023 02:12 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  In relevant news, Parler is officially shutting down. Turns out conservative safe space media isn't a winning business model

Is Gab shutting down?

(04-13-2023 02:11 PM)oruvoice Wrote:  

(04-13-2023 01:21 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  

(04-13-2023 01:17 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(04-12-2023 07:29 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  

(04-12-2023 07:24 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  The last news organization that left twitter came crawling back in days.

Did they not get the same subsidies Elon got either?

Elon got subsidies for twitter? Thats news to me.

Musk's companies have received an estimated $4.9B in federal subsidies.

NPR receives $3M of their $300M annual operating budget from federal subsidies.

If that's actually the case, then why not go ahead and cut all government funding for NPR? I mean, if it's just a tiny percentage, they won't miss it.

Take that suggestion to your Dem reps and see what response you get.

And give up the control that tiny sliver buys? Lol. Never gonna happen.