Trump’s threat to defund all US public media has NPR and PBS on the back foot

‘Perhaps no American media has attracted as much ire from the president-elect as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.’ Photograph: Rafael Henrique/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock

On the campaign trail this year, Donald Trump routinely criticized US media. The president-elect called for CBS to be stripped of its broadcast license after it aired an interview with Kamala Harris, refused to participate in an interview with 60 Minutes and routinely called journalists the “enemy of the people”.

But perhaps no American media has attracted as much ire from the president-elect as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting – a non-profit corporation created by federal law in 1967 to distribute funding to public media organizations like PBS and NPR.