For Trump, the message is all. No surprise he’s targeting NPR and PBS

‘Last week, NPR itself reported that the Trump administration was drafting a memo to call for eliminating federal funds for public media.’ Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP

It was entirely predictable that Donald Trump would go after public media in America. Harming the reality-based press – in every form, whether public or private – is a central part of his playbook for controlling the political narrative as he moves the country toward an authoritarian model of government.

For Trump, the message is all, and anything that gets in the way should be portrayed as an evil to society and stamped out.