In what can solely be thought of the worst transfer ever by an administration that’s presently ignoring the Supreme Courtroom order to return a wrongly deported man, the Trump administration is trying to reduce virtually all the federal funding for public media, together with NPR and PBS.
Based on a White Home memo considered by NPR, the worst administration in American historical past is planning to ship mentioned memo to Congress on April 28, which is once they return from recess, to both approve the reduce or permit their funding to be restored.
From NPR:
In an announcement on Monday that didn’t consult with the memo, the White Home mentioned: “For years, American taxpayers have been on the hook for subsidizing Nationwide Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which unfold radical, woke propaganda disguised as ‘information.’” The assertion contains examples of what the White Home mentioned is “trash that passes as ‘information” and “intolerance of non-leftist viewpoints.”
NPR produces the award-winning information packages Morning Version and All Issues Thought-about, whereas PBS is finest identified for its nightly PBS Information Hour and high-quality kids’s programming, resembling Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood.
Earlier this month, on social media platforms, Trump blasted the 2 major public broadcasting networks, posting in all caps: “REPUBLICANS MUST DEFUND AND TOTALLY DISASSOCIATE THEMSELVES FROM NPR & PBS, THE RADICAL LEFT ‘MONSTERS’ THAT SO BADLY HURT OUR COUNTRY!”
Sure, as a result of I can’t even start to let you know the harm that “Discovering Your Roots” and “Antiques Roadshow” have accomplished to America.
NPR notes that President Trump needs to chop some “$1.1 billion — two years price of funding for the Company for Public Broadcasting, or CPB, a congressionally chartered impartial nonprofit group that in flip partially funds NPR and PBS.”
And all of this comes after a Home Oversight subcommittee listening to in March the place executives from NPR and PBS had been pressured to argue that their respective community isn’t biased in opposition to conservatives.
I’m certain the White Home will declare that this isn’t the case, however it’s, because the president has proven a vindictiveness in opposition to those that don’t bend the knee as a result of Trump is a taller, rounder, extra orange model of Joffrey Baratheon.
“Eliminating funding for the Company for Public Broadcasting would have a devastating affect on American communities throughout the nation that depend on public radio for trusted native and nationwide information, tradition, lifesaving emergency alerts, and public security data,” NPR mentioned in an announcement.
“We serve the general public curiosity. It’s not simply in our identify — it’s our mission. Throughout the nation, domestically owned public media stations characterize a proud American custom of public-private partnership for our shared frequent good,” it mentioned.
Solely actually evil individuals would assume this can be a good thought.
Paula Kerger, PBS CEO and president, instructed NPR that rescinding funding for public media would “disrupt the important service PBS and native member stations present to the American individuals.”
“There’s nothing extra American than PBS, and our work is just potential due to the bipartisan help now we have at all times obtained from Congress,” she mentioned. “This public-private partnership permits us to assist put together hundreds of thousands of youngsters for achievement at school and in life and in addition helps enriching and galvanizing packages of the best high quality.”
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