ho provato vergogna e profondo disagio per le parole del nostro primo ministro #Meloni che legittima il colpo di Stato di #Trump in #Venezuela,colpo di stato condotto con una sfrontatezza che manco #Nixon con il #Cile
But in the years that followed, the strength of local #PublicTelevision & #PublicRadio stations in conservative states was often what saved the #federal #funding.
In 1995, #NewtGingrich, then the #House speaker, made one of the most aggressive moves since #Nixon to “zero out” federal support for #PublicMedia before he found it politically untenable.
#Trump#Republicans#PublicBroadcasting #censorship #authoritarianism #autocracy
Nixon’s admin didn’t follow through. Instead, it toggled between pressure on the independent Corporation for #PublicBroadcasting to do its bidding & a plan to push more of its budget down to local stations — which, #Nixon aides believed, tended to have more conservative management than the national #networks run out of New York & Washington.
No sooner was the system established than the #Nixon White House attacked #PBS for being packed with correspondents & guests who were “anti-administration” or “Kennedy sycophants,” as a Nixon aide, Patrick Buchanan, put it at the time.
Nixon was so “disturbed” that PBS had started a new national #news show w/the hosts Robert MacNeil & Sander Vanocur — someone on his enemies list — that he requested “all funds for #PublicBroadcasting be cut immediately,” memos released years later showed.