Ever since U.S. President Donlad Trump returned to the White House on January 20 this year, he has persistently and consistently expressed his utter dislike for the national media. In fact, even during his first presidency, 2017-2020, he had often branded America’s many top media outlets, electronic or print, as the ‘nation’s biggest enemy’. And unfortunately, not only that, President Trump’s also utmost underpinning in demonizing the American media has now become a popular phrase, ‘fake news’. Be that as it may, and said to say that, Trump has also ‘christened’ media persons as the ‘enemy of the people’.

It’s probably due to the President’s heightened animus against the media that he has ordered to ‘Kill VOA’- America’s best channel to communicate with the world. President Trump has recently passed an Executive Order to defund the two most popular broadcast public media, NPR, national public radio and PBS, public broadcasting service, television network. These media networks are under the overall management of an umbrella entity, Corporation for Public Broadcasting. CPB receives and distributes over $535 million to public television and radio stations........

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