Comment on [Wikileaks] USAID was funding over 6,200 journalists across 707 media outlets and 279 "media" NGOs, including nine out of ten media outlets in Ukraine.
They’re legally independent, but when their budget is 80% American government, they’re effectively not independent.
Can you cite a specific example? How did you come up with the 80%?
I took that to mean that 80% was directly affected, as in it came from this one US Govt program. But that’s also a valid interpretation.
karl_chungus@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
Can you cite a specific example? How did you come up with the 80%?
Kaboom@reddthat.com 9 hours ago
I took that to mean that 80% was directly affected, as in it came from this one US Govt program. But that’s also a valid interpretation.