For now, links to four reports: from National Public Radio, Reuters, and the Associated Press, and for commentary via Middle East Eye; others or just headlines are are accessible by clicking on their initials below. (MEDIA 3-31-25 is HERE, or scroll down. SYRIA and GAZA entries for today’s date, so far, are HERE and HERE, or scroll up.) — MCM
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President Trump orders end to federal funding for NPR and PBS. Reported by Ryland Barton and Leila Fadel | NPR President Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s board of directors to “cease federal funding for NPR and PBS.” NOTE: Audio may be unavailable. Click HERE and HERE to read reports from NPR and Reuters.
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FROM MAY 1 Trump signs executive order directing federal funding cuts to PBS and NPR. From AP. WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to PBS and NPR as he alleged “bias” in the broadcasters’ reporting. The order instructs . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from NPR.
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FROM APRIL 12 America’s news TV channel for the Mideast fires its staff and goes off the air after funding cuts, by Sam Magdy and Ellen Knickermeyer | AP CAIRO — The head of a U.S.-funded Arabic-language television and online news outlet that claims a 30 million-strong audience in the Middle East and North Africa terminated most staff and TV programming Saturday, accusing the Trump administration and Elon Musk . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM MAY 1 Why I wrote an expert report against the UK’s classing Hamas as a terror group, by Jonathan Cook | jonathan-cook.net / Middle East Eye Several independent British journalists and commentators — those whose careers are not dictated, and protected, by billionaires or the UK state broadcaster — have had their homes raided at dawn by counter-terrorism police or been arrested at the border as they return home. Click HERE to read article and for video of an interview from Unapologetc.
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