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>>"Even NPR cannot stand on its own without government funding.<< - bhm

What percentage of government funding makes up NPRs budget? Take a guess. - Umm

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Indirect funding. Like Fauci, funding gain of function research.

wikipedia:

Although NPR receives only 1% of its direct funding from the federal government, member stations (which pay dues amounting to approximately one third of NPR's revenue), tend to receive far larger portions of their budgets from the federal (through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting) and state governments.

NPR states it is not state-run media, and further states it operates independently of the U.S. government; nonetheless, NPR indicates that federal funding is essential to NPR and that the loss of federal funding would weaken the network

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