{"id":1914215,"date":"2023-04-13T10:41:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T14:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pbs-joins-npr-in-backing-away-from-twitter\/"},"modified":"2023-04-13T10:49:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T14:49:57","slug":"pbs-joins-npr-in-backing-away-from-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pbs-joins-npr-in-backing-away-from-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"PBS Joins NPR In Backing Away From Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpbs-joins-npr-in-backing-away-from-twitter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1914215&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>After National Public Radio (NPR) quit Twitter, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) became the second news organization to do so this week. This was in response to Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, listing NPR as \u201cUS state-affiliated media\u201d and then later labeling it as \u201cGovernment-funded Media,\u201d a designation that was also applied to PBS.<\/p>\n<p>PBS spokesman Jason Phelps informed Bloomberg News that \u201cPBS stopped tweeting from our account when we learned of the change and we have no plans to resume at this time.&#8221; He added, &#8220;We are continuing to monitor the ever-changing situation closely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk shared Twitter\u2019s policy on labeling state-affiliated media and when making the initial decision to label NPR. The Twitter policy states that \u201cState-affiliated media is defined as outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and\/or control over production and distribution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response to the labeling, an NPR spokesperson announced that the company would no longer use the platform. The statement said that \u201cNPR\u2019s organizational accounts will no longer be active on Twitter because the platform is taking actions that undermine our credibility by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent.\u201d The statement further explained that NPR was not \u201cputting our journalism on platforms that have demonstrated an interest in undermining our credibility and the public\u2019s understanding of our editorial independence,\u201d and that there were alternative ways to stay connected to NPR\u2019s news, music, and cultural content.<\/p>\n<p>This decision by NPR comes amidst controversy over the organization&#8217;s refusal to cover the Hunter Biden laptop scandal in the weeks preceding the 2020 presidential election. NPR Managing Editor Terence Samuels explained NPR\u2019s stance by remarking, \u201cWe don\u2019t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don\u2019t want to waste the listeners\u2019 and readers\u2019 time on stories that are just pure distractions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To learn more current news, download <a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Daily Wire app<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Broadcasting Service became the second news organization to quit Twitter this week after National Public Radio quit using the platform after Twitter CEO Elon Musk had the organization listed as \u201cUS state-affiliated media\u201d and later as \u201cGovernment-funded Media\u201d \u2014 a designation later applied to PBS. \u201cPBS stopped tweeting from our account when we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1914216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4454,16561,19567,4253],"class_list":["post-1914215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-joins","tag-npr","tag-pbs","tag-twitter"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1914216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}