Posted on 05/02/2025 6:55:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end federal funding for NPR and PBS — because of news coverage he called “biased and partisan” — triggered a fierce backlash from public broadcasters that appears poised to expand the White House’s larger legal battleground with the media industry.
Issued Thursday night, the order instructs the congressionally chartered Corporation for Public Broadcasting to cut off direct funding to the venerable public media giants — producers of long-running news shows such as “All Things Considered” and “PBS NewsHour” — as well as any grants to local stations that might underwrite the national broadcasters’ programming.
PBS president and chief executive Paula Kerger said her organization was “exploring all options” to assist its member stations and challenge what she called a “blatantly unlawful” move that “threatens our ability to serve the American public with educational programming, as we have for the past 50-plus years.” NPR vowed to “vigorously defend our right to provide essential news, information and life-saving services to the American public.”
Some legal scholars agreed that the Trump order may exceed the president’s actual powers over CPB — a nonprofit corporation that receives and distributes federal funds but is not a federal agency — and violate the First Amendment.
Meanwhile, a move that seems aimed at media coverage of national politics left local public stations perplexed by how cuts of this magnitude would affect their ability to serve their audiences. Corporate consolidation and shifts in the advertising business have shuttered or shrank many commercial stations; now, some public stations are the primary local news source in their communities.
The staff of WWNO 89.5 in New Orleans has gone “all hands on deck” to cover natural disasters, such as Hurricane Ida in 2021, said general manager Paul Maassen. When people lose power,...
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The media is totally communist! Shut it down!
This is rich.
NPR and PBS go out of their way to claim “we get a small share of our funding from the govt.
Now they say the removal of funding will kill them. https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5384790/trump-orders-end-to-federal-funding-for-npr-and-pbs
“ NPR typically receives about 1% of its funding directly from the federal government, and a slightly greater amount indirectly; its 246 member institutions, operating more than 1,000 stations, receive on average 8% to 10% of their funds from CPB.
By contrast, PBS and its stations receive about 15% of their revenues from CPB’s federal funds.”
PBS IN RENO HAS CARTOONS ON AT 1 AM.
First thing liberals think of is lawsuit.
How can they think it is moral and justified to take money from people by force (taxes) and use it to politically oppose those very people’s beliefs?
Leftist mouthpieces for decades! Great to hear. And as a side note, why do most female djs on classical music public radio stations have voices that sound like they’re heavy chain smokers?
They all sound like they’re on Prozac to me.
Some legal scholars agreed that the Trump order may exceed the president’s actual powers over CPB — a nonprofit corporation that receives and distributes federal funds but is not a federal agency — and violate the First Amendment.
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So NPR and PBS are afforded Constitutional rights under the First Amendment?
WTF is a "nonprofit corporation" doing "receiving and distributinng" federal funds?
Defunding PBS & NPR is a good thing. PBS holds fundraising every month. So why does it need federal funds? No reason.
Looks like the Tote-bag buyers need to pony up more dough.
Safe to say the prez served up a delicious dish on this one.
Read Davy Crockett’s “Not Yours To Give” speech.
Easy. They are pathetic parasitic sociopaths
And just where in the constitution say we the people must fund the media?
What?
No District Courts permanently enjoining Orange Man Bad?
Have Traitor Roberts’ 0bama and BiZiden and Clinton Judges lost their Mojo?
“freeper” joesbucks hardest hit.
Just how would it be unlawful?
"They are pathetic parasitic sociopaths"
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