{"id":33743,"date":"2025-02-19T16:25:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T16:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/state-department-orders-cancellation-of-media-subscriptions-around-world\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T16:25:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T16:25:44","slug":"state-department-orders-cancellation-of-media-subscriptions-around-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/state-department-orders-cancellation-of-media-subscriptions-around-world\/","title":{"rendered":"State department orders cancellation of media subscriptions around world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign posts told to end all \u2018non-mission critical\u2019 news subscriptions in Trump directive that will \u2018endanger lives\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The state department has reportedly ordered its outposts around the world to cancel all subscriptions to news and media outlets that are supposedly \u201cnon-mission critical\u201d in another extraordinary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> crackdown on normal information channels.<\/p>\n<p>An email memo was circulated to embassies and consulates earlier this month explaining that the move was a further effort to cut costs by the federal government, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/style\/media\/2025\/02\/18\/state-department-news-subscriptions-trump-media-crackdown\/\">the Washington Post<\/a> reported late on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/19\/state-department-media-subscriptions-cancelled\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign posts told to end all \u2018non-mission critical\u2019 news subscriptions in Trump directive that will \u2018endanger lives\u2019 The state department has reportedly ordered its outposts around the world to cancel all subscriptions to news and media outlets that are supposedly \u201cnon-mission critical\u201d in another extraordinary Trump administration crackdown on normal information channels. An email memo &#8230; <a title=\"State department orders cancellation of media subscriptions around world\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/state-department-orders-cancellation-of-media-subscriptions-around-world\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about State department orders cancellation of media subscriptions around world\">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-33743","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\/33743","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=33743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}