"We are here to serve our communities and to fulfill our mission of giving them news, giving them entertainment, giving them emergency alerts and giving them school closings. We do lost and found pet notices. We do funeral announcements. We have a listing of community events that is read multiple times a day. We do weather forecasts. We're a critical part of the community, Smith told Al Jazeera."
"The Trump administration has gone after news organisations that have presented any critical coverage of him, including the Wall Street Journal, after its coverage of a suggestive letter purportedly written by Trump to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for his birthday. In September, he tried to sue The New York Times for allegedly being a virtual mouthpiece for the Democratic Party."
Allegheny Mountain Radio provides emergency alerts, weather forecasts, school closings, lost-and-found pet notices, funeral announcements and frequent listings of community events. Scott Smith is the general manager and runs the station alongside programme manager Heather Nidly. Funds were slashed as part of a tax cut and spending bill signed in July, and a rescissions bill allowed Congress to claw back approved funding. The station lost 65 percent of its funding when $1bn was pulled from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and those allocated funds officially dried up at the end of September. Stations are scrambling to fill the resulting holes.
Read at www.aljazeera.com
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