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Trump issues order to pull funding for NPR and PBS (www.theverge.com)

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While the executive order argues that taxpayer funds shouldn’t be used in support of biased news, the Trump administration has also launched the White House Wire. The wire is a Drudge Report–style news aggregator of positive Trump media coverage. Axios reports that White House officials say the wire’s purpose is to give Trump supporters a “one-stop shop for news.”

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[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 3 points 3 months ago

Time to renew the membership again. I wonder if we can set up some sort of cache and relay system to help defray the costs for their web streams. You know, kind of a fediverse broadcasting network system...