arquebus_x comments on Apple News+ subscription growth blows away major media sites

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[–] arquebus_x@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

NPR is not free; it's paid for by taxes, which means that every U.S. citizen is in fact paying for news whether they like it or not. And "not for profit" is not the same as "no cost to the consumer." In addition, most of the outlets for NPR are local public radio stations that are - you guessed it - funded by taxes (as well as fund drives).

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[–] explore_broaden@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

NPR/public radio stations get less than 10% of their funding from the federal government.

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[–] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago

NPR gets most of its money from corporate sponsorships, which means advertisements, which falls back to being the product

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[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

obviously nothing is literally “free”, that’s a trivial point to make. operational funds have to come for somewhere. The point was there's no additional cost to the reader (that they aren't already paying for) to get news from those sources and they don't depend on ad revenue or data monetization to make a profit.

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