NPR Freaks Out

[brenthutch 388]

Over the “N” in NPR 

 

 

[wmw999 2,146]

Do you have any sort of reference for this? Or is it something that you just expect us to go looking for?

Wendy P.

[brenthutch 388]

11 minutes ago, wmw999 said:

Do you have any sort of reference for this? Or is it something that you just expect us to go looking for?

Wendy P.

Twitter labeled NPR as a “State Affiliated Media” (which only makes sense as it is subsidized by the government) and they had a cow.  

[wmw999 2,146]

NPR gets less than 1% of its income from the government. It'd be much more accurate to call Clarence Thomas a donation-supported Supreme Court Justice.

Wendy P.

[jakee 1,257]

4 hours ago, brenthutch said:

Twitter labeled NPR as a “State Affiliated Media” (which only makes sense as it is subsidized by the government) and they had a cow.  

What did they say?

[BIGUN 1,069]

8 hours ago, brenthutch said:

Twitter labeled NPR as a “State Affiliated Media” (which only makes sense as it is subsidized by the government) and they had a cow.  

I already tire of Elon's purchase of Twitter. What was purported to be a new platform for all to enjoy "Freedom of Speech" has become an all-about-me platform and "my sense of freedom." His labeling of NPR as state-affiliated media is silly. Should we call Tesla a state-affiliated car company given the federal tax breaks and federal loans received. Would he even have SpaceX if it weren't for federal dollars?    

[brenthutch 388]

8 hours ago, wmw999 said:

NPR gets less than 1% of its income from the government. 

Wendy P.

Wrong!
“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.”

 

 

 

[jakee 1,257]

11 hours ago, brenthutch said:

Twitter labeled NPR as a “State Affiliated Media” (which only makes sense as it is subsidized by the government) and they had a cow.  

Since you were unwilling or unable to look into this yourself, I did. Twitter’s own policy is that ‘State affiliated media’ is specifically a label for media outlets were the government have editorial control. Twitter themselves on other parts of their website use NPR as an example of what is not state affiliated media.

 

So NPR are entirely right. Twitter, Musk and you were entirely wrong. Even Musk is already starting to walk back. Will you?

[billvon 2,426]

2 hours ago, jakee said:

Since you were unwilling or unable to look into this yourself, I did. Twitter’s own policy is that ‘State affiliated media’ is specifically a label for media outlets were the government have editorial control. Twitter themselves on other parts of their website use NPR as an example of what is not state affiliated media.

D'oh!

Musk better get out his Sharpie and change "not" to "yes."  Then he can claim it always said that.

[olofscience 422]

On 4/7/2023 at 2:29 AM, brenthutch said:

Twitter labeled NPR as a “State Affiliated Media” (which only makes sense as it is subsidized by the government) and they had a cow.  

Brent's definition of 'freaks out' is silence:

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The main NPR account has not tweeted since Twitter first applied the state-affiliated label on Wednesday.

And now:

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Twitter has removed a label that designated NPR as a “US state-affiliated” media outlet mere days after first applying the label earlier this week. As of Saturday, the company now lists the public broadcaster as a “government funded” organization.

Source: https://www.engadget.com/twitter-removes-us-state-affiliated-media-label-from-npr-account-215742901.html

[wolfriverjoe 1,351]

1 hour ago, olofscience said:

Brent's definition of 'freaks out' is silence...

A lot of brent's 'definitions' are rather suspect.

[billvon 2,426]

15 hours ago, olofscience said:

Twitter has removed a label that designated NPR as a “US state-affiliated” media outlet mere days after first applying the label earlier this week. As of Saturday, the company now lists the public broadcaster as a “government funded” organization.

If this were Russia, a Twitter content manager would now be accidentally falling out a window.  

But since it's not, hopefully he will only be fired.

[ryoder 1,397]

Love this article title!

Ars Technica: Musk admits NPR isn’t state-affiliated after asking questions he could have Googled

[gowlerk 1,923]

11 minutes ago, ryoder said:

Love this article title!

Ars Technica: Musk admits NPR isn’t state-affiliated after asking questions he could have Googled

Elon is a busy man. He has no time to spend checking facts when a whim comes to him about something as small as this. Besides, when you spend enough of other people's money to acquire control of a shiny new toy you expect to be able to play with it however you like. Yet somehow his fans still think he will send people to Mars and that Tesla won't eventually be swamped by real car companies. 

[ryoder 1,397]

4 minutes ago, gowlerk said:

Yet somehow his fans still think he will send people to Mars and that Tesla won't eventually be swamped by real car companies. 

And Full Self Driving will be here real soon now, within 12 months!

[billvon 2,426]

2 hours ago, ryoder said:

Love this article title!

Ars Technica: Musk admits NPR isn’t state-affiliated after asking questions he could have Googled

But he doesn't own Google yet.   Why would he use that search engine?  It might give him answers that do not agree with him. 

[jakee 1,257]

3 hours ago, ryoder said:

Love this article title!

Ars Technica: Musk admits NPR isn’t state-affiliated after asking questions he could have Googled

These are questions you can get by Googling, but for some reason he wanted to ask me. And also, let's take a moment and pause on these questions, Mary Louise, because he made a major policy decision, right? And after doing so, he is just now asking for the basic facts.

 

No great surprise, since that’s how he bought Twitter in the first place.

[wolfriverjoe 1,351]

16 minutes ago, jakee said:

These are questions you can get by Googling, but for some reason he wanted to ask me. And also, let's take a moment and pause on these questions, Mary Louise, because he made a major policy decision, right? And after doing so, he is just now asking for the basic facts.

 

No great surprise, since that’s how he bought Twitter in the first place.

And, of course, gullible fools believed what he said.

[wmw999 2,146]

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Such are promises
All lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest, hmm

Wendy P.

[gowlerk 1,923]

10 minutes ago, wmw999 said:

Wendy P.

A teacher made us memorize that song in grade 7. But shouldn't it be canceled these days for the derogatory reference to NY sex trade workers?

[billvon 2,426]

19 minutes ago, gowlerk said:

A teacher made us memorize that song in grade 7. But shouldn't it be canceled these days for the derogatory reference to NY sex trade workers?

Children might hear it!  After all, they are being traumatized by a picture of someone on a beer can; a song would be even worse!

[JoeWeber 2,324]

Just now, billvon said:

Children might hear it!  After all, they are being traumatized by a picture of someone on a beer can; a song would be even worse!

Or be asked to suck the Dalai Lama's tongue. Nah, never happen and if it did it was just a joke. He's such a spiritual cut-up.

[brenthutch 388]

On 4/6/2023 at 10:01 PM, wmw999 said:

NPR gets less than 1% of its income from the government. It'd be much more accurate to call Clarence Thomas a donation-supported Supreme Court Justice.

Wendy P.

“NPR wants to have it both ways: Its supporters say less than 1 percent of its funding comes from the government but its website claims "federal funding is essential to public radio's service to the American public." It wants to continue holding out its hands for government funding, but it also wants to brag about complete and total editorial independence—two ideas held in tension—while developing quite the reputation for lefty bias (backed up by the Knight Foundation and Pew Research Center audience polling), which leaves conservative and libertarian taxpayers' stomachs churning.”

[billvon 2,426]

12 minutes ago, brenthutch said:

“NPR wants to have it both ways: Its supporters say less than 1 percent of its funding comes from the government but its website claims "federal funding is essential to public radio's service to the American public." It wants to continue holding out its hands for government funding, but it also wants to brag about complete and total editorial independence

So in other words it's like every oil company in America.

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which leaves conservative and libertarian taxpayers' stomachs churning.”

It leaves their stomach churning because they disagree with the news.  Hearing that oil companies get far more will calm their digestion in no time.

[brenthutch 388]

43 minutes ago, billvon said:

So in other words it's like every oil company in America.

It leaves their stomach churning because they disagree with the news.  Hearing that oil companies get far more will calm their digestion in no time.

You need those oil companies, the taxes on their products pay for your roads. How much infrastructure does NPR pay for?

“State Excise Tax Pays for Highways and Roads. In 2022-23, the state gasoline excise tax is set at 53.9 cents per gallon, and the tax is expected to raise $7.4 billion from gasoline purchases for vehicles using public roads.”

 

Edited April 18, 2023 by brenthutch