Public Broadcasting Is Not the Enemy
It’s the Thread That Holds Democracy Together
On May 1st, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at cutting off all federal funding to NPR and PBS, framing it as an effort to stop “taxpayer subsidization of biased media.” It’s a phrase we’ve heard before. In Canada, Pierre Poilievre has spent years using similar rhetoric to attack the CBC, pledging to “defun…
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