Francois Heinderyckx<p>On the eve of World Press Freedom day, the president of the US orders to end federal funding for <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@npr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>npr</span></a></span> and PBS. The vast majority of their funding comes from other sources, but even if this is mostly symbolic, it constitutes a major historic milestone.</p><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5384790/trump-orders-end-to-federal-funding-for-npr-and-pbs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-53847</span><span class="invisible">90/trump-orders-end-to-federal-funding-for-npr-and-pbs</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PBS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NPR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PSM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PublicServiceMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicServiceMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpolitics</span></a></p>