just that they have to stand on their own like all other commercial and non commercial broadcast licenses.

Your statement is massively flawed in itself, as they can't run commercials or do paid promotions. How do they stand up against commercial entities? Hence being "National Public Radio", a not for profit, not lets play the latest Bille Eilish and Post Molone song to profit.

You do realize how much funding NPR gets, % wise, from the government? 1%. The rest is not only listener funded, it is grant based from non government entities & once again, no, they can't nor, not have to stand on their own like other commercial or non commercial entities.

This is not intended toward you or your post. But the defunding of VOA and PR is detrimental to the security of the country, when we are being assailed by dark entities. VOA is supposed to reach off shores and defend against RT and Chinese propaganda, for example.

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