Posted on 11/18/2025 2:29:58 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A federal judge ruled against one of the Trump administration’s efforts to defund NPR.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) had slashed a $36 million contract with NPR after President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at cutting funding to the news outlet. After a judge’s ruling, the CPB is renewing the contract after a judge ruled in NPR’s favor, according to the network.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting agreed Monday to fulfill a $36 million, multi-year contract with NPR that it had yanked after pressure from the Trump White House.
The arrangement resolves litigation filed by NPR accusing the corporation of illegally yielding to Trump's demands that the network be financially punished for its news coverage. The argument, part of a broader lawsuit by NPR and several stations against the Trump administration, focused on CPB funding for NPR's operation of a satellite distribution system for local public radio stations. NPR announced Monday it would waive all fees for the stations associated with the satellite service for two years.
The judge in the case had explicitly told CPB's legal team he did not find its defense credible. CPB lawyers had argued that the decision to award a contract instead to Public Media Infrastructure, a new consortium of public media institutions, was driven by a desire to foster digital innovations more swiftly.
Katherine Maher, President and CEO of NPR, celebrated the settlement, calling it “a victory for editorial independence and a step toward upholding the First Amendment rights of NPR and the public media system in our legal challenge to [Trump’s] Executive Order,” in a written statement.
In its submission Monday evening to the court, CPB did not concede that it had acted wrongfully — nor that it had yielded to political pressure from...
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These judges need to be purged.
The undertaker Face of NPR/MPR Garrison "Feeler" Keillor; NPR News Director Michael Oreskes; NPR Chief News Editor David Sweeney; NPR Senior Vice President of Digital Media David Edelman; NPR host Tom Ashbrook; NPR correspondent Daniel Zwerdling; and don't forget NPR-adjacent PBS celeb host Charlie Rose."Here is a made-for-Trump cudgel to use against this soft, black-robed tyrant and win this fight in the court of public opinion.
Benedict Obama stooge Randolph Moss.
I thought that congress de-funded NPR and PBS. What gives?
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