The US, being a plutocracy, the same people who own the media own the government.
So of course US media are not run or funded by the government directly (apart from RL/RFE, and maybe a tiny percentage of NPR) but fully funded by the same massive business conglomerates and their corresponding tax-sheltered foundations.
I mean its not exactly a secret, as she points out. For example, The Ford Foundation, Rochefeller Foundation, Carnegie, etc etc, are not disguised at all: Its Ford and Rockefeller and Carnegie.