With the Trump administration focused on cutting waste, fraud, and abuse from the federal budget, there’s an effort underway to make sure public broadcasting ended up under the microscope. The notion that public broadcasting would be held to any form of accountability, including the possibility they broke federal law, was apparently beyond the pale for former Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron, who vented to CNN International’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday.
“And Trump is working in a very determined way to try to undermine the press in every conceivable way that he can. And we are only, well, not that many weeks into this administration,” Baron lamented. “You've got about four more years to go. And he's going to continue doing that, and that is a real risk.”
Baron was fearful of the FCC scrutinizing the finances of NPR and PBS and recommending cuts to Congress. He also took issue with the examination of on those outlets for the possibility that they violated federal law barring commercials from their airwaves.
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