Journalism: Should Locals Consider KCUR State-Affiliated Media?!?!

There's a local connection to a nationwide controversy . . . 

Consider . . .

Given so much debate over Twitter tagging NPR as a propaganda outlet . . . We'd like to know how locals regard the station's editorial viewpoint. 

They're obviously progressive but they're so boring that many locals don't notice. 

You might enjoy this . . . 

I was going call him Sam "I'm not a scumbag" Zeff because he often mean tweets TKC . . . But let me start out nice and note the metro reporter has a mostly respectable list of stories except for this one . . . 

Why Democrats might actually have a shot in Missouri's U.S. Senate race

In retrospect . . . That's just as silly as anything TKC has ever written on this blog but without a single fart joke or educational view of a supermodel hottie's cleavage. 

In our last tweety slap fight encounter  . . . Señor Zeff clowned TKC's low-rent blogging status in response to teasing about the NPR tote-bag that I'm STILL owed. 

And this brings us to a point made recently by Tucker Carlson. 

Yes . . . NPR does earn tax money AND corporate sponsorship. 

When media takes money . . . Their editorial influence is implicit even if it's minimal. Since we got a few ads running in this dump . . . Longtime readers might notice that TKC is a lot less raunchy . . . And with the help of faithful & generous readers . . . We've also slightly improved our ratio of typos.

From our vantage we notice KCUR, Kansas City's NPR affiliate, ALWAYS aligns with progressives and takes a great deal of care to fully explain the perspective of this town's Democratic Party elite. Very little consideration is given to conservatives. 

Again . . .  

This would be a bigger deal if more people listened to KCUR. Nearly infinite podcast, streaming and satellite listening alternatives have rendered their reach pretty pathetic and that's why one of their old school reporters is busy trolling TKC. 

Nevertheless . . .

KCUR & KCPT have become a home for castaways and wayward scribes from the Kansas City Star. They garner generous corporate donations that seem like some kind of white middle-class welfare TKC doesn't really understand . . . Or else I'd be begging for those very same handouts that aren't based at all on ratings, clicks, views or anything tangible.

Still . . . As usual conservative talker Tucker Carlson shares the most incisive criticism of NPR's organization and the recent Twitter designation might pull back the curtain on their whisper campaign cash winning via airwaves that belong to the taxpayers . . .

Every year, NPR lobbyists head to Capitol Hill to demand more tax dollars. "Democracy can't exist without us," they screech, while simultaneously at the very same time telling you at high volume that NPR takes virtually no tax money. "So, we don't need federal subsidies. Don't even want them, really, but you have to increase them." That is NPR's line and has been for decades under the political leadership of both parties, and it's essentially unchallenged by anyone. It just stays. Wars and recessions come and go, but NPR funding remains, but after more than half a century, it is very clear that there is nothing public about National Public Radio. NPR is the radio station of permanent Washington. That's who pays for it. That's who benefits from it. By adding three simple words to NPR's tweets, Elon Musk exposed that forever to the world. Such is the power of truth. It exposes and, of course, it infuriates those who are exposed. 

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com links . . .

Twitter labels NPR's account as 'state-affiliated media,' which is untrue

Twitter added a "state-affiliated media" tag to NPR's main account on Tuesday, applying the same label to the nonprofit media company that Twitter uses to designate official state mouthpieces and propaganda outlets in countries such as Russia and China. NPR operates independently of the U.S. government.

TUCKER CARLSON: NPR has always been kind of awful

On Tuesday, two days ago, Twitter slapped a warning label on all tweets from National Public Radio. Going forward, identified for users of Elon Musk's social media site as "state-affiliated media." That is the same category as Russia Today or China Central Television.

NPR CEO Slams Twitter for Labeling Its Account as 'State-Affiliated Media': It's 'Unacceptable'

Elon Musk's Twitter slapped a new label on the account of American public radio broadcaster NPR that says it is "US state-affiliated media." Other Twitter accounts with the state-affiliated media label include Russia Today (RT), Russia's Sputnik and China's Xinhua News.

You decide . . .