![]() Publicly funded PBS joins publicly funded NPR in leaving Twitter in a huff after being labeled “Publicly Funded” □- Elon Musk April 13, 2023 ![]() ![]() In a meeting later on Wednesday, NPR CEO John Lansing added that Twitter does not drive much traffic to the company anyway, and that it “no longer has the public service relevance that it once had.”Īpparently seeking the last word on the subject, Musk tweeted his disapproval: In its statement, NPR didn’t specify whether it would return if Musk restored its label-free status, but the statement had an air of finality about it. In a rare interview with a BBC journalist on Wednesday, Musk said he would change the label on that organization to “publicly funded” perhaps he planned to do the same for NPR. Later on Wednesday, PBS, which had also gotten the “government-funded media” label, said it would refrain from tweeting in the future as well. (Though the company gets significantly more through payments from member stations, who are funded by the government.) NPR ceased tweeting in protest of the move and pressed its case to Twitter, after which Musk tweaked the label to “government-funded media.” That did not mollify NPR, which said the label was still inaccurate, since it’s a private company with editorial independence that receives only about one percent of its funding from the federal government. Statement from our CEO John Lansing: /acVADJ8NZ3- Mary Louise Kelly April 12, 2023Įarlier this month, as part of his continuing dogfight against traditional media outlets, Musk slapped a “state-sponsored media” label on NPR’s Twitter account, putting it in the same category as propaganda-heavy, government-controlled outlets like Xinhua and Sputnik. Elon Musk’s strategy at Twitter may be unorthodox, but it paid dividends on Wednesday morning, when NPR announced that it would be picking up its 52 Twitter accounts and going home and leaving the site, citing “actions that undermine our credibility by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent.” ![]() Here’s something they don’t teach you at fancy business schools: When you acquire a company, the smartest move is to alienate some of that company’s most stalwart consumers to the point that they don’t want to bother using its services anymore. ![]() Photo: Marl`ena Sloss/Bloomberg via Getty Images ![]()
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