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why does NPR/PBS keep asking for donations from regular Joes when they clearly get so much money from the state department and orgs with similar funding and goals (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not even being sarcastic or anything, I genuinely don't know

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to quote Chum-ski, but manufacturing consent and blah blah blah.

To rise inside of NPR you have to be a shitlib and spouse shitlib takes. Doesn’t matter where their funding comes from. But I mean, it does come from shitlib donations so yeah.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yep, exactly.