PBS Joins NPR in Quitting Twitter over State-Backed Label(bloomberg.com) |
PBS Joins NPR in Quitting Twitter over State-Backed Label(bloomberg.com) |
> Federal funding is essential to public radio's service to the American public and its continuation is critical for both stations and program producers, including NPR.
NPR claims federal funding is essential, yet protests the label?
I'm not sure what the actual rule text was before Musk, but the category was essentially "outlets tied to authoritarian regimes," and at least it was consistently enforced.
I agree it's fair for them to protest, just seems a bit hypocritical to post the GP quote on your website and then complain when you get labelled for alignment. Quitting just seems a childish response on NPR's part. How many people and orgs do they label and make claims about?
The real issue is that they don't pay anything for the spectrum use.
And again I think its a fair complaint, not childish. NPR gets a small fraction of their funding from various governments, yet substantially or fully funded information outlets are still everywhere unlabeled on Twitter... which leave them sitting alongside the existing labeled outlets from authoritarian regimes. If I was NPR, I would feel singled out. I would be pissed too.
I'm not sure it's "childish" for an organization to stop doing something that it perceives as not useful to the organization.