Because the NPR receives almost no money from the federal government. Read the article. It receives less than 1 percent of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Although NPR receives less than 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 state governments, and also the US government through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1/3 isn't 100%, but it's also far from insignificant.
Hold on, 1/3 of what? What funding paid the dues back to CPB?
My local affiliate breaks their funding down as 50% member support, 40% corporate/charitable underwriting, 10% state/local govt funding. Maybe other NPR affiliates also get federal grants, but this one doesn’t.
Seems like we’re back to a pretty small fraction of funding for the US State to exert hard control over the content produced.
> 1/3 isn’t 100%, but it’s also far from insignificant.
It gets 1/3 from member stations, which get “far more” than 1% from various levels of government.
“Far more than 1%” of 1/3 does not mean “1/3”. It’s actually, IIRC, about another 4% of NPRs funding that indirectly comes from government this way, bringing NPR to about 5% government funding, including indirect government funding through its members stations.
