Tim Ruppert 🌻Jul 9, 2023
Extremely disappointed in NPR Weekend Edition Sunday reporting on new Threads app. It was a gushing advertisement for the latest corporate grab to control the Internet which totally ignored critical privacy issues. And on top of that, they didn’t even mention Mastodon which is now 13 million users strong!
#NPR #Mastodon #Fediverse #Threads
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@tmruppert

Public radio is being heavily funded by Koch Industries now soooooo hmmm.  

Jul 9, 2023 at 6:55pmWeb
Show threadTim Ruppert 🌻Jul 9, 2023
@artisanrox I have not heard that. Source?
Show threadartisanroxJul 9, 2023

@tmruppert

They made large donations to Minnesota and Boston public radio and many public radio station broadcasts actually have a disclaimer calling out their donations.

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-the-Koch-Brothers-big-supporters-of-NPR-or-am-I-mistaken?share=1

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Why are the Koch Brothers big supporters of NPR, or am I mistaken?

Answer (1 of 9): I heard a “this program was made possible by” statement on an NPR station, and it credited the Koch brothers and some foundation of theirs. I was in Ohio at the time. What about that?

Quora
Show threadartisanroxJul 9, 2023

@tmruppert

>In the nineteen-eighties, he began expanding his charitable contributions to the media, donating twenty-three million dollars to public television over the years. In 1997, he began serving as a trustee of Boston’s public-broadcasting operation, WGBH, and in 2006 he joined the board of New York’s public-television outlet, WNET.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/05/27/a-word-from-our-sponsor

They have their hands in almost e v e r y t h i n g that leans Right.

David Koch vs. PBS

Jane Mayer on how the conservative industrialist is shaping public television—by funding it.

The New Yorker
Show threadartisanroxJul 9, 2023

@tmruppert

Well, of couse, David has passed but his brother is still doing shenanigans. $$$$$$$.