{"id":40436,"date":"2025-05-02T10:18:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T10:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/trump-orders-funding-cut-for-public-broadcasters-npr-and-pbs-in-fresh-attack-on-media-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T10:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T10:18:42","slug":"trump-orders-funding-cut-for-public-broadcasters-npr-and-pbs-in-fresh-attack-on-media-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/trump-orders-funding-cut-for-public-broadcasters-npr-and-pbs-in-fresh-attack-on-media-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump orders funding cut for public broadcasters NPR and PBS in fresh attack on media \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President accuses radio and TV channel of bias and pulls taxpayer funding<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media rights group RSF warned Friday about \u201can alarming deterioration in press freedom\u201d in the United States under Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paris-based Reporters Without Borders, which has been tracking press freedom for the last 23 years, highlighted how Trump had made difficult conditions worse by axing US financial support for state-backed broadcasters such as Voice of America and Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty (RFE\/RL), as well as US foreign development aid that assisted media outlets overseas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/may\/02\/donald-trump-tariffs-immigration-courts-pbs-npr-media-pete-hegseth-us-politics-live-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President accuses radio and TV channel of bias and pulls taxpayer funding Media rights group RSF warned Friday about \u201can alarming deterioration in press freedom\u201d in the United States under Trump. Paris-based Reporters Without Borders, which has been tracking press freedom for the last 23 years, highlighted how Trump had made difficult conditions worse by &#8230; <a title=\"Trump orders funding cut for public broadcasters NPR and PBS in fresh attack on media \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/trump-orders-funding-cut-for-public-broadcasters-npr-and-pbs-in-fresh-attack-on-media-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump orders funding cut for public broadcasters NPR and PBS in fresh attack on media \u2013 US politics live\">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-40436","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\/40436","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=40436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}