Public media is in the crosshairs. How will Alaska’s congressional delegation vote? - Chilkat Valley News

Public media is in the crosshairs. How will Alaska’s congressional delegation vote? - Chilkat Valley News

Should public media be spared the budget cutting axe of President Donald Trump and the congressional allies of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE? I’m not going to directly answer that question myself, because I’m not an unbiased observer: I’ve worked for years as a reporter and contractor for Alaska Public Media, Anchorage’s public radio and television station. I also have close friendships and working relationships with many of t…

Not even Trump may be able to pierce the independence that Congress granted to public media

Photo (cc) 2009 by James Cridland Much of what President Trump is doing, or at least flapping his gums about, is illegal. An example would be his demand that Harvard be stripped of its tax exemption. Such a move would not only be illegal but Trump also arguably broke the law just by saying it, since, as Rachel Leingang reports in The Guardian, “Federal law prohibits the president from directing or influencing the Internal Revenue Service to inve…