𝗜𝗧'𝗦 𝗚𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗢 𝗕𝗘 𝗔 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗙𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗠𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗡 𝗔 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦 𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥 𝗔 𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗬

                                    

While the First Amendment to the Constitution protects a free press, President Trump is following the Joseph Stalin and Viktor Orban model of eliminating an independent, free press, initially calling them "fake news," but now, going much further in damning them as "the enemy of the people."

Before this past election, Donald Trump posted this about National Public Radio: 

"NO MORE FUNDING FOR NPR, A TOTAL SCAM! EDITOR SAID THEY HAVE NO REPUBLICANS, AND IS ONLY USED TO 'DAMAGE TRUMP'" "THEY ARE A LIBERAL DISINFORMATION MACHINE. NOT ONE DOLLAR!!!"

A.G. Sulzenberger, the editor of The New York Times, recently wrote an editorial published in The Washington Post, dealing with the threat Trump poses to the Free Press.

After first mentioning what Prime Minister Viktor Orban has done in Hungary in rooting out any coverage critical of his administration, Sulzenberger added:

"I’ve been asked with increasing frequency whether The New York Times, where I serve as publisher, is prepared for the possibility that a similar campaign against the free press could be embraced here in the United States, despite our country’s proud tradition of recognizing the essential role journalism plays in supporting a strong democracy and a free people,” he wrote. “'It’s not a crazy question.'”

"Trump and his allies have hinted at their plans to increase attacks on the media," Sulzberger wrote, pointing to the former president’s comment last year in which he said, “When I win the presidency of the United States, they [Comcast] and others of the LameStream Media will be thoroughly scrutinized for their knowingly dishonest and corrupt coverage of people, things and events.”

President Trump's new head of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, has ordered an investigation of NPR and PBS, with an eye toward unraveling federal funding for all public broadcasting.

"I am concerned that NPR and PBS broadcasts could be violating federal law by airing commercials," Chairman Brendan Carr wrote on Wednesday to the presidents and chief executives of NPR and PBS, Katherine Maher and Paula A. Kerger, respectively. "In particular, it is possible that NPR and PBS member stations are broadcasting underwriting announcements that cross the line into prohibited commercial advertisements."

What Carr refers to as "advertisements" is actually "underwriting" by corporations interested in keeping entities like NPR and PBS viable since only 1% of their funding comes from federal and state governments.

The complaints against NPR and PBS had been initiated during Trump's first term, but dropped when Biden was President as was a similar complaint against Fox News.

Trump's new head of the FCC reinstituted the investigations into NPR and PBS, but did not do the same with Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, an obvious Trump propaganda machine that reached a $787M settlement for lies with respect to the Dominion election machines.

During the next four years, the citizenry will need absolute vigilance to prevent Trump from dismantling our Constitution, trampling on the rights of a Free Press while morphing from President to dictator.

                    

Adolf Hitler, Viktor Orban, Donald Trump, Joseph Stalin: All enemies of the Free Press