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    Some US media are cheerleading Trump’s Venezuela raid. That’s not their job | Margaret Sullivan

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    An almost admiring feeling pervaded the early coverage – and not just among right-leaning outletsIf you believe the early public opinion polls, Americans are uncertain about last weekend’s raid on Venezuela and the seizure of the country’s leader, Nicolás Maduro.But many in the media seem to be trying to move that wavering needle to approval.Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture Continue reading… More

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      Corporation For Public Broadcasting formally dissolves after federal funding cuts

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      Board of directors vote to dissolve organization after nearly 60 years in operation after funding cuts under TrumpThe nonprofit charged by Congress with allocating funds to NPR, PBS and other US public radio and television stations announced is dissolving after massive federal funding cuts under Donald Trump.The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced on Monday that its board of directors had voted to dissolve the organization after nearly 60 years in operation. Continue reading… More

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      Trump cuts have fueled ‘rage-giving’ to US rural public radio. Will it be enough?

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      Across the US, federal public media cuts have galvanized many communities to donate to their local radio stationsAs soon as the US government voted to cut funding to more than 1,500 public media outlets last July, Luke Dennis, general manager at WYSO, a public radio station in Yellow Springs, Ohio, kicked into action an emergency funding drive.“The thing that really bothered me was not so much that the federal funding went away, because I felt like that was inevitable under the current administration, but to give us zero runway to prepare for it,” says Dennis. Continue reading… More