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Knowledge: Attacks on free press

Attacks on the free press and public boradcasting by Trump regime: 






POLITICS

How Trump's policies and Project 2025 proposals match up after first 100 days

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Updated on: April 29, 2025 / 10:09 AM EDT / CBS News

Project 2025, an ultra-right wing plan developed by former and current Trump staffers is being 

implemented by the regime. Trump repeatedly and consistently claimed he would not do this.  

There is severe damage caused by this plan convert our country is a white nationalists 

theocracy of sorts.

Targeting PBS and National Public Radio

Brendan Carr, head of the Federal Communications Commission, informed the heads of National Public Radio and PBS in a letter earlier this year that the agency had opened an investigation into the airing of their programming across their roughly 1,500 broadcast member stations, according to The New York Times.Those stations are licensed by the FCC to operate, but are limited to operating as noncommercial educational broadcast stations. These stations, or NCEs, are exempt from licensing fees and operate on a specific "reserved" frequency band. Federal law prohibits these noncommercial educational broadcast stations from airing commercial advertisements.

In his letter, Carr wrote that he is "concerned that NPR and PBS broadcasts could be violating federal law by airing commercials. In particular, it is possible that NPR and PBS member stations are broadcasting underwriting announcements that cross the line into prohibited commercial advertisements."

Carr also said that he also does not see a reason for Congress to continue approving federal dollars for NPR and PBS "given the changes in the media marketplace." PBS CEO Paula Kerger said the cuts "would devastate PBS member stations and the essential role they play in communities, particularly smaller and rural stations."

Carr authored the section of Project 2025's policy book that deals with the FCC, but another portion of the blueprint urges Congress to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides grants to NPR and PBS.

According to Project 2025, "stripping public funding would, of course, mean that NPR, PBS, Pacifica Radio, and the other leftist broadcasters would be shorn of the presumption that they act in the public interest and receive the privileges that often accompany so acting." The outlets should therefore no longer be qualified as noncommercial educational broadcast stations, according to the book.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-project-2025-playbook/