public broadcasting

Court battle likely over Trump’s executive order to defund public broadcasting

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President Trump issued a late-night executive order Thursday calling for an end to government dollars for the Corp. for Public Broadcasting, the taxpayer-backed entity that provides funding to public media outlets the president described as “left wing propaganda.” But Trump’s ongoing effort to cut federal funding of public media outlets such as PBS and NPR … Read more

Commentary: PBS and NPR cater to all Americans, despite what Marjorie Taylor Greene might believe

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Every so often across my 21 years as a TV critic at this paper, I have been moved to defend public broadcasting against regular right-wing attempts to defund it. The difference now — well, one difference — is we are living in a time without guardrails, when the ethos at the top seems to be … Read more