Public media ready to fight ‘unlawful’ Trump order defunding PBS, NPR

The Washington Post ^ | May 2, 2025 | Scott Nover, Herb Scribner, Frances Vinall

[E. Pluribus Unum]

[Machavelli]

The media is totally communist! Shut it down!

[DoodleBob]

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.”

[ridesthemiles]

PBS IN RENO HAS CARTOONS ON AT 1 AM.

[mass55th]

First thing liberals think of is lawsuit.

[The Free Engineer]

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?

[KierkegaardMAN]

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?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

They all sound like they’re on Prozac to me.

[mn-bush-man]

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?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

...a nonprofit corporation that receives and distributes federal funds...

WTF is a "nonprofit corporation" doing "receiving and distributinng" federal funds?

[gildafarrell]

Defunding PBS & NPR is a good thing. PBS holds fundraising every month. So why does it need federal funds? No reason.

[Huskrrrr]

Looks like the Tote-bag buyers need to pony up more dough.

[Peter ODonnell]

Safe to say the prez served up a delicious dish on this one.

[fella]

Read Davy Crockett’s “Not Yours To Give” speech.

[hal ogen]

Easy. They are pathetic parasitic sociopaths

[Organic Panic]

And just where in the constitution say we the people must fund the media?

[Paladin2]

What?

No District Courts permanently enjoining Orange Man Bad?

Have Traitor Roberts’ 0bama and BiZiden and Clinton Judges lost their Mojo?

[kiryandil]

“freeper” joesbucks hardest hit.

[lastchance]

Just how would it be unlawful?

[Bikkuri]

"They are pathetic parasitic sociopaths"

Drown them in horse paste!