but there are other non-profit groups that survive without government funding such as the Christian operators.

JJSPC, the convoluted, unfair practices that specifically EMF operate under, allowing them to prosper as they do. I tried to find the article that eloquently spells it out. But found another one. When you look into it, it is a sham. Circumventing rules for market caps, tax write offs, unsupervised local studios, the typical record labels no longer sign or get airplay on EMF, all enclosed within their ecosystem of select mega churches. Once again it is not a fair playing field. It is because they are a religious entity expect from a lot of the "rules". How can a non-comm exist on 97.9? 95.5 New York which were not non-comm to begin with?????

Look, NPR is no more innocent like any other entity that money passes through hands. NPR news tends to be unbiased which FOX, MSNBC, OAN and even network news deliver and I do enjoy it. I am not big on their special segments and programming. Above my taste of consumption. I just have issues that funding is cut for them when the President is directing VOA to rebroadcast OAN news feeds so they can profit? Nope, no conflict of interest there. (sarcasm)

Full disclosure, I am Christian, but this is beyond robbing the poor as everyone is blind toward it.

Thank you for the discussion!

Z