President says neither NPR nor PBS ‘presents a fair, accurate, or unbiased portrayal of current events’
In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation’s primary public broadcasters.
President Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s board of directors to “cease federal funding for NPR and PBS.”
Broadcasters PBS and NPR to lose tens of millions of taxpayer dollars under US president’s order
In a sweltering Rose Garden on Thursday, as President Donald Trump intoned at length about restoring faith to the White House, he took a moment to...
Trump alleged that both organisations have produced “biased and partisan news coverage”.
The executive order also instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to halt indirect funding of NPR and PBS through grants to local stations.