For Trump, the message is all. No surprise he's targeting NPR and PBS | Margaret Sullivan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Though the funds have already won approval, Trump is fond of acting as though his every whim will become law.
58% : In my own area of specialization - journalism and the news industry - there's no American media reporter I respect more than David Folkenflik, whose work is characterized by energetic, unbiased reporting and frequent scoops.
56% : All of that is well under way in the first three months of Trump 2.0, as is the effort to dismantle the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, which are funded by the federal government.
55% : "Radical left 'monsters'," as Trump characterized them in a social media post a few weeks ago.
55% : It reportedly involved a "rescission" - the blocking of more than $1bn that's already been approved by Congress for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the parent of NPR and PBS.
53% : Public funding - at least in theory - should provide some distance from corporate ownership by the rich and powerful.
47% : " Congress should send Trump's plan packing and continue to provide funding - not because NPR and its member stations are perfect, not because PBS always gets it right in its overall excellent NewsHour program that airs each evening, but because, on balance, they are a critical part of the fact-based news ecosystem necessary to democratic self-governance.
31% : Congress must reject his planned cuts It was entirely predictable that President Trump would go after public media in America.
28% : Like every would-be autocrat, Trump has an anti-media playbook.
27% : For Trump, the message is all, and anything that gets in the way should be portrayed as an evil to society and stamped out.

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