The news that these entities produced is either resented or increasingly tuned out and turned off

by most of the hardworking Americans who are forced to pay for it.

They no longer view NPR and PBS as trusted news sources.

My sense is that they're trying to create, you know, kind of a pincor attack on the foundations of funding for public broadcasting, just as they're going after media in a variety of ways.

So there are calls on Capitol Hill from both sides of Congress to strip all funding from all of public broadcasting.

On this week's more to the story, I talk with David Fulkenflick, NPR's media correspondent,

about the challenges facing journalists covering the Trump administration

and why some media outlets are bowing to pressure from the White House.

Hey, it's Anna Salle, host of Death, Sex, and Money, the show from Slate about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more.

Many of us have something going on behind closed doors.

Like a listener, we called Elizabeth, who told us she's a hoarder.

I see mess beyond probably what most people think of when they think of mess.

We'll work through it all together on death, sex and money.

Listen wherever you get podcasts.

This is more to the story.

I'm Al Letton.

During his first term in office, President Donald Trump was openly hostile with the media.

Trump famously called journalist the enemy of the American people and routinely mocked them for producing what he called fake news.

But he faced a press corps that was determined and combative in covering his administration

and holding it accountable.

It was an era when the Washington Post even added a phrase to their paper, Democracy

dies in darkness.

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