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NPR is not state funded or controlled. They receive a tiny amount from grants from organizations that are federally funded amounting to around 2% of their budget.

Probably a lot less than some of these large private media corps get in subsidies and tax breaks on both state and federal levels.

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This is an interesting point and one could make the argument (based on these subsidies and tax breaks) that all corporate media in the US is a form of state media.

The key difference between US corporate media and state media in other countries being:

* In other countries: the government controls the state media outlets.

* In the United States: the corporate media outlets control the government.

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