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Something can be taxpayer-funded without being an arm of the government. Government grants and public funding sources can be divorced enough from what they fund that you can get things like NPR and PBS, which I don't view as authoritarian, certainly not in the way that state-sponsored media outlets tend to push the current party agendas.

> Gov funded = Authoritarianism

Do you think of BBC as a mechanism of authoritarianism?

In Philadelphia, the Inky had a similar footpath as other papers, circling the drain, trading owners, layoffs, a new internet work, the whole shebang. But in 2016 they were bought by a philanthropist who donated the Inquirer and it's other holdings (Philadelphia Media Network) to The Philadelphia Foundation which is a community foundation that has been around for a long time in our city. They're now a "public benefit corporation" which is a structure that can help enable not hedonistic structures to survive in a capitalistic world