{"id":32171,"date":"2025-02-02T15:53:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T15:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/02\/hes-become-americas-assignment-editor-us-media-owners-bend-to-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-02-02T15:53:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T15:53:45","slug":"hes-become-americas-assignment-editor-us-media-owners-bend-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/02\/hes-become-americas-assignment-editor-us-media-owners-bend-to-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He\u2019s become America\u2019s assignment editor\u2019: US media owners bend to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaires and corporations leading TV networks and newspapers seem to have caved to the president\u2019s pressure<\/p>\n<p>In a tumultuous first two weeks back in power in the White House, Donald Trump has targeted many familiar enemies, including one of his most passionate obsessions: the US media, whom he has frequently dubbed \u201cenemies of the people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s new federal communications chair, Brendan Carr, is reported to have ordered an investigation into the sponsorship practices of taxpayer-supported NPR and PBS member stations \u2013 a media network long hated by conservatives who accuse it of a liberal slant.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/02\/trump-media-pressure\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaires and corporations leading TV networks and newspapers seem to have caved to the president\u2019s pressure In a tumultuous first two weeks back in power in the White House, Donald Trump has targeted many familiar enemies, including one of his most passionate obsessions: the US media, whom he has frequently dubbed \u201cenemies of the people\u201d. &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018He\u2019s become America\u2019s assignment editor\u2019: US media owners bend to Trump\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/02\/hes-become-americas-assignment-editor-us-media-owners-bend-to-trump\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018He\u2019s become America\u2019s assignment editor\u2019: US media owners bend to Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}