President Trump signed an executive order to terminate federal funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), declaring such funding outdated and damaging to journalistic independence. He criticized the impartiality of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports these entities, claiming they do not provide unbiased news coverage. The order affects both direct and indirect funding, with NPR and PBS receiving a small percentage from government sources. Concurrently, Trump announced the White House Wire as a positive news aggregator for Trump-related coverage, further emphasizing the administration's view on news biases.
"Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence," the order reads. It says the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is supposed to remain impartial and unbiased - and Trump argues that the CPB funding NPR and PBS at all violates that.
"Which viewpoints NPR and PBS promote does not matter. What does matter is that neither entity presents a fair, accurate or unbiased portrayal of current events to taxpaying citizens."
"REPUBLICANS MUST DEFUND AND TOTALLY DISASSOCIATE THEMSELVES FROM NPR & PBS, THE RADICAL LEFT 'MONSTERS' THAT SO BADLY HURT OUR COUNTRY!"
"Earlier this year, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr launched an investigation into NPR and PBS for violating FCC guidelines by airing commercials - an allegation that NPR President and CEO Katherine Maher publicly refuted, saying the broadcaster had worked with the FCC for decades to ensure compliance with federal regulations."
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