You may have heard rumors about Trump’s May 1 executive order “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media.”
You may even have heard short blurbs about it on the air as you listen to your favorite KUNM radio programs. Trump’s order says no media outlet has a constitutional right to taxpayer money, and the government gets to determine which activities to subsidize. In a nutshell, the order is telling the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and its Board of Directors to stop funding National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) because they air “biased and partisan” news coverage.
It isn’t exactly ironic that the president wants to defund the stations who bring us unfiltered underground music and alternative news, and it doesn’t seem to be stations such as KUNM and KNME that are the ones guilty of censorship.
“As you know, there’s plenty of news in a song,” KUNM General Manager Richard Towne says. “So, that’s why I say the intent is to destroy all of that.”
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