Last week saw a delightfully breathless editorial in the Washington Post, followed by an even more preposterous companion piece at Politico, claiming that legislation changing how the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and other U.S. government-sponsored broadcasters are organized is somehow handing dictatorial control of American media to Donald Trump.

Currently, U.S. government-controlled international broadcasters are run under the supervision of a CEO who answers to the Broadcasting Board of Governors, or BBG—a presidentially appointed board made up of four Democrats, four Republicans, and whoever happens to be secretary of state. “A radical change to that system is now coming,” warns the Post, a change that government-media propagandists “Vladimir Putin and Qatar’s emir might well admire.” The change is found in legislative language deep in the annual National Defense Authorization Act: The CEO will now have to answer to the president (the BBG will be abolished).