NPR’s account label was changed last night on Twitter to read “state-affiliated media.”
This puts them on par with other state-affiliated media like Russia’s RT and China’s Xinhua.
Here’s more via Fox News:
Twitter has made it official, National Public Radio (NPR) is now classified as a “US state-affiliated media” outlet on the platform.
It’s a label that has traditionally applied to state-run media outlets in foreign autocracies, like Russia’s RT and China’s Xinhua.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk shared the company’s guidance on state-affiliated media Wednesday.
“State-affiliated media is defined as outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution,” the Twitter policy read.
“Seems accurate,” Musk wrote, referring to NPR’s new title.
Some of the publicly-funded media outlet’s staff were not as pleased with the label.
NPR Climate & Energy Correspondent Jeff Brady responded directly to the news on Twitter.
“Uh, no..,” Brady wrote, sharing a screenshot of the new designation.
Former NPR producer Ashley Westerman said that the label was “wholly inaccurate and untruthful. NPR gets LESS THAN 2% of its funding from grants through the federal government. NPR’s newsroom is an absolutely free and independent newsroom; always has been. This label is a LIE and an insult.”
The label does fit but NPR isn’t really any different than the other garage media outlets, other than the federal funding.
News organizations like ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC are all Democrat controlled just like NPR and their bias against Republicans is well known.
They should all be labeled Democratic Party partisan media because that’s exactly what they are.