As supporters of the Taste of Truth Authorities celebrate World Press Freedom Day, Trump seeks to abandon the state media in the US.
The $ 50 bill is considered in the posterior pocket of US President Donald Trump, when he is imprisoned by the air force, one to depart from the joint base of Andrewn, May 1, 2025.
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On the night of Thursday Donald Trump order The direction of the corporation for public broadcasting to “stop the financing of the federal NPR and PBS … to the maximum extent authorized by the law” took place a few hours before the Saturday advocate democracy that support the media democracy. It was no coincidence.
This 47th president did not fascinate his contempt for reliable independent media, which, which Day of freedom of the world press Celebrates – Print, broadcast and digital media, both public and private The past is for democracy.
Trump and his oligarchic allies Long -drooped Even the most modest efforts of public outlets and public media on the class of billionaire, transnational corporations and their insertion in Congress. Heritage 2025 Foundation project direct After all, how the Republican White House will politically come up with the right, and its corporate donors said last year that “all Republicans president acknowledged that state funding is a mistake.”
“Stop State Funding is a good policy and good policy”, the 2025 project of the agenda interpret. “The reason is simple: President Lyndon Johnson may have promised in 1967 that public broadcasting would be” vital state resource for the enrichment of our homes, teaching our families and assisting our classroom, “but public broadcasting immediately became a liberal forum for state affairs and journalism.”
Of course, the idea that public broadcasting “became a liberal forum” is a conservative myth.
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After all, one of the first, the longest and most famous public television programs was ShootingA broadcast project initiated William F. Bakley -younger. Buckle founded National review The magazine, advised the figures, for example, Barry Goldvoter and Ronald Reagan, and in 1965 set a national application for the Mayor of the New York on the line of the Conservative Party, which warned that the Republican Party of the 1960s was too liberal. Added to many state TV channels in the late 1960s, Shooting Since 1971, PBS has been distributed at the national level and produced by a non -profit association of southern educational communications. This will still remain one of the leading PBS programs until 1999, when Bakley stood up.
The next -generation version Shooting continues to appear at PBS stations to today Margaret Hoover-The true president of the Republican Herbert Hoover, veteran of the George W. Bush administration, and the author of the book American individualism: How new generation of conservatives can save the Republican Party. While Guver was ready to criticize Trump’s wrongdoing, she is more than ready to call liberals.
But Trump’s executive order did not mention Bakley, Hoover, ShootingOr the fact that PBS and NPR regularly represent the conservative members of Congress and the authors. Also not accepted the assessment that both networks have been encountered with a thoughtful censure On the left of their coverage of affairs in the Middle East and many other issues. Instead Conservative complaints About “subsidizing taxpayers of national public radio (NPR) and public broadcasting (PBS) -” individual “, which receive tens of millions of dollars annually in taxpayers’ funds to distribute radical, promoted propaganda under” news “.
Also, the White House did not mention that even when they were criticized News about desert rural America.
Most of the financing of public and public broadcasting these days comes from listeners and private donors, not government. And cuts offered by Trump will certainly be run. As a commentator by Media Brian Stelter notesCorporation for public broadcasting “must be protected from executive orders and other political pressure.”
But Trump’s attack on NPR and PBS still sends a terrible signal.
“The attack of journalists and the media is on the page of one of the authoritarian books. That is why anyone who cares about accountability and democracy must be deeply concerned about the future of the public media,” says Craig Aaron, President and Sua Free press (Organization I helped find). “The current system is far from perfect, and for too long public broadcasting leaders have been subjected to and conceded when they were to be repelled. But we all care about the independent press, the informed population, the responsive government and the prosperous democracy, so that we have a share.
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