Mini-Post: Control The Media

One of the first things a dictator does is control the media!

• We have seen in the past... the denial of unfavorable news outlet access to the government.
• Attacking unfavorable news article and suiting the reporters.
• Using regulatory agencies to attack unfriendly news outlets

Oh wait that's not Joseph Goebbels but rather Trump & Company!

President Trump orders Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end federal funding for NPR and PBS

By Clay Voytek, CNN

May 2, 2025

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end federal funding for America’s two biggest public broadcasters, which have faced a series of attacks from the White House and Republican lawmakers accusing them of biased reporting.

The order instructs the CPB’s board to terminate direct funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service to the “maximum extent allowed by law and shall decline to provide future funding.” It also orders the board to take steps to “minimize or eliminate” indirect funding to NPR and PBS.

The executive order also directs Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to investigate NPR and PBS for possible employment discrimination, and it instructs the heads of all other federal agencies to “identify and terminate” any direct or indirect funding of the media organizations, as allowed by the law.

Goebbels is smiling up at them.