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President Trump tried to fire three board members of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting on Monday, including Tom Rothman, the chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Motion Picture Group.
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Hours after President Trump tried to remove three board members, the corporation filed a lawsuit arguing he does not have that authority.
President Trump has ordered all federal funding of public media cease. In March, NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS CEO Paula Kerger testified such cutbacks would hurt local member stations that serve as a free source of news, education, entertainment, and disaster preparedness information for areas poorly served by corporately owned media.
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Rupert Murdoch, center, at the Republican National Convention in July. Murdoch has led his media empire to become a major player in conservative politics.
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