Trump’s Assault on PBS and NPR Chooses Oligarchy Over Press Freedom and Democracy

Donald Trump’s Thursday Night order Instructing the company to “suspend federal funds for NPR and PBS… to the maximum extent permitted by law” for public broadcasting came hours before advocates of Saturday’s Democratic Media Mark World Press Freedom Day. It wasn’t a coincidence.

This 47th president has not kept the sloppy, independent media secret. World Press Freedom Day Celebrate – both public and private printing, broadcasting and digital media tell the truth about political and economic power; Breakdown for democracy.

Trump and his Olihead allies have Long hair Even the most modest efforts of public broadcast outlets and community media to describe billionaires classes, multinational corporations, and congressional vassals. Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 outlines how the Republican White House delivers politically for rights and its corporate donors declared last year that “all Republican presidents recognize that public funds for domestic broadcasts are wrong.”

“Stop public funding is good policy and good politics,” the Project 2025 Agenda I’ll explain it. “The reason is simple. President Lyndon Johnson may have vowed in 1967 that public broadcasting will “be an important public resource to enrich our homes, educate our families and provide support to our classrooms,” but public broadcasting quickly became a liberal forum for public affairs and journalism. ”

Of course, public broadcasting “suddenly became a liberal forum” is a conservative myth.

After all, one of the first, longest and most well-known public television shows is Launch lineBroadcast project started by William F. Buckley Jr. Buckley was founded National Review The magazine received right-hand counselling such as Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, and in 1965 he placed a nationally prominent bid for the Mayor of New York on the Conservative Voting Line. It was added to the lineup of many public television stations in the late 1960s. Launch line Since 1971, it was distributed nationwide by PBS and produced by the Non-Profit Southern Educational Communication Association. It will remain one of PBS’ best programs until 1999 when Buckley stopped.

Next Generation Version Launch line It continues to appear on PBS stations until today, Margaret Hoover– great grandson of George Bush administration veteran Republican President Herbert Hoover, and the book’s author American Individualism: How a New Generation of Conservatives Save the Republican Party. Hoover is ready to criticize Trump’s misdeeds, but she is willing to call out liberals.

However, Trump’s executive order failed to mention Buckley, Hoover. Launch lineor the fact that PBS and NPR regularly feature conservative members of Congress and the author. No notes were received regarding the fact that both networks have faced thoughtfully over the years. Criticism From left to right regarding the reporting of the Middle East issue and many other issues. Instead, documents related to “Taxpayer Grants for Biased Media Termination” repeated the standard Rittany of Conservative complaints “We awakened propaganda disguised as ‘news’ about National Public Radio (NPR) taxpayer grants (NPR) and public broadcasting services (PBS) about receiving tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds each year to spread radical things. ”

The White House said, as criticised by GOP Presidents, NPR and PBS have continued to receive federal funds historically, at least in part, as a group of Republicans in the House and Senate (some of them) are aware of the services their networks provide to the News Desert. Country America.