National Public Radio’s Twitter Fight With Elon Musk

Public broadcasters claim they don’t receive much taxpayer funding—but can’t live without it.

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National Public Radio headquarters in Washington, D.C. Photo: saul loeb/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

The FBI isn’t the only taxpayer-supported organization coming under the microscope at Elon Musk’s Twitter. The staff at National Public Radio seems to be getting very prickly, to use a favorite NPR adjective, over Twitter’s effort to inform users about NPR and its business model. Mr. Musk’s social media company might just expose the basic contradiction in public broadcasting’s public relations.

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