The Friday primetime lineups of CNN and MSNBC did not handle the news that President Trump signed an executive order forbidding taxpayer money for PBS and NPR well, as they portrayed the news as an assault on everything from democracy, science, the military, farmers, and even the country itself.
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Over at MSNBC and Deadline: White House¸ former NPR host Michele Norris claimed Trump’s move was part of a strategy to make Americans dumber:
They don't understand that if you live in a place like Iowa or Nebraska and you spend your day behind a combine, or you listen to the radio while you're looking out at a cornfield, that oftentimes what they're listening to is an NPR station, because that's the place that will give them news about soybean futures. That's the place that will give them news about an invasive species that is affecting their crops. It's the place that will give them news about things that happened in the hills and the hollers and the mountains of America that, frankly, we don't cover in a place like MSNBC. And the Trump administration wants to control the narrative. The Trump administration wants to control the flow of information, and the Trump administration does not care that the public will be less educated and less informed.
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