Here's an example of indirect ties to funding of an explicitly partisan media outlet:

https://www.vox.com/pages/funding

Another one is Politico, which has been receiving an alleged aggregate of 8M in funds for "institutional subscriptions" at 37K each. Aligned media groups are out in force to argue these figures by misleading turns of phrase. Typically they will cite, "we only took [smaller amount] from [specific agency]", rather than discussing the aggregate amounts. Searching for what should be easily accessible public data has been hampered as a result.

You'll find that many of the NGOs which funded Vox were in turn funded by USAID. As for the board memberships, you can also pursue those sources yourself. There's a self-perpetuation element to this graft, when aligned partisan media groups are funded with state funds.

"Jill Biden named board chair of aid group Save the Children"

https://apnews.com/general-news-b9dfd4705dc046a68ae53a1b262c...

"Save the Children is pleased to announce that we are a core partner on MOMENTUM 2A, a recently awarded 5-year, $100 million program funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) that will advance the survival and the health of women, mothers, newborns, and children worldwide."

https://www.savethechildren.org/us/what-we-do/health/save-th...

"Save the Children offices raided in child trafficking investigation"

https://www.yahoo.com/news/save-children-offices-raided-chil...

>Greed has been with us forever.

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>...every option should involve politics. The only way out is to live in an autocracy..

This keeps coming up here on HN. I feel that many posters fundamentally misunderstand the foundational values of western liberalism that gave rise to The United States. If not for these values, we probably would not be celebrating "Democracy" as the highest good, which is in itself a misunderstanding of individualist liberalism.

Yes, greed is innate to the human condition. Lord Acton has a famous quote that applies here. By recognizing the fallible nature of man, we then seek to limit the scope of possible corruption by limiting the scope of the state. It isn't authoritarian or autocratic to ask that those who wish to support Vox, do so voluntarily with their own funds.

The entire premise of a limited republican government is based upon limiting the coercion of the state. It starts from the first principles of Natural Rights. Many will dispute the validity of this approach, but to characterize it as autocratic is to misunderstand history and the basics of philosophy.

What a individual does with his own private property in absence of coercive taxes is not a political matter. Little "D" democracy has a role to play in the specific implementation of our limited republic, but it is not the highest good. We should not be voting away property for special causes or partisan journalists. This is not because we regard all special causes as being unworthy of support, but because we oppose authoritarianism. We oppose the of the tyranny of the majority. We recognize the dangerous feedback effects of politicians voting themselves and their constituents public funds.

There's nothing autocratic in this. The effort to spin it as such preys upon the illiteracy of the reader. If anything, it is slight restoration of the original values of These United States. If we recall history, the issues around 1776 were in response to an unaccountable parliament taxing colonists without adequate representation.

Posters go off the rails when they invoke Fascism in regards to these cuts. Mussolini famously said, "Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism