NPR & Colorado stations sue Trump over blocked funding—arguing it’s retaliation, threatens newsrooms & First Amendment rights. 
#PressFreedom #NPR #Trump #PublicMedia
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/npr-sues-trump-over-blocked-funding-says-it-may-have-to-shutter-newsrooms/ #newz
And #Trump has called on #Congress to eliminate ALL CURRENT & FUTURE #funding for #PublicMedia & the Corporation for Public Broadcasting [#CPB], though he has not sent a formal request for the current funding to be clawed back.
Earlier this spring, the #Republican-led Congress passed a stop-gap budget measure that fully funds CPB through the end of September 2027.
#NPR manages & operates the terrestrial distribution system allowing member stations & community broadcasters to deliver & download content for broadcast. Additionally, the network & its member stations rely on #CPB to help acquire rights to broadcast #music for use on its shows.
The #ExecutiveOrder is just one front in the #Trump admin's attack on #PublicMedia—& itself a part of a larger assault on the #news media writ large.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #democracy
“It was entirely predictable that Donald #Trump would go after #PublicMedia in America. Harming the reality-based #press is a central part of his playbook as he moves the country toward an authoritarian model of government.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/22/trump-media-npr-pbs
Ricardo Sandoval-Palos, public editor of PBS, joined @SFPublicPress executive director Lila LaHood at a recent fireside chat to discuss the future of media. The conversation took place before President Trump had announced an executive order attempting to defund public media, but Sandoval-Palos was anticipating the move. “The threat is at the local station level. The bulk of rural stations around the country, and even some urban stations probably cannot stay open if they don’t have the support from the [Corporation for Public Broadcasting] CPB. Some stations, up to 60% of their budgets are made up by funds from CPB,” he said.
https://www.sfpublicpress.org/responding-to-attacks-on-public-media-dei-and-democracy/
Core memories incoming. Which one’s yours? #ViewersLikeMePBS #PublicMedia #PublicBroadcasting
"The neo–Cold War trick is to just say "Putin" enough times in hopes that the reader will eventually realize that the US government funding anything is a sign of impending tyranny."
Once again, hats off to @FAIR for defending #PublicMedia (compromised as it is) from folks who want to conflate @NPR with "State Media"
I take no joy in it, but maybe #publicmedia is getting what it deserves. All the sane-washing, the both-sides'ing, eventually the leopards come
Public media isn’t outdated or unnecessary. It’s filling the void left by collapsing local for-profit newsrooms.
In WA state, nearly 1 in 3 journalists now works in public media. Killing funding means killing local journalism, according to a media researcher.
So in conlusion, support the country's youth that supports programming that supports them, educates them, and urges them to keep asking questions they can take to the classroom or to their community.
Support people living in news deserts and rural areas where the only alternative is Alex Jones types on AM radio.
#PBS #NPR #PublicMedia #america #fightfascism #fightfordemocracy #fighttyrrany #fightoligarchry #fighttrump
Folks in the US, if you are concerned about the proposed federal funding cuts to PBS and NPR, this website makes it easy to contact your lawmakers and ask them to oppose these cuts.
Brian Stelter wrote, and Lawrence Tribe agreed:
"The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 is what established the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Nothing in the law allows a president to defund #PBS and #NPR.
Congress specifically sought to insulate #PublicMedia from political pressure." #politics
KNKX have sent out a statement just now asking everyone to contact their representatives to tell them to protect public media funding.
KUOW's statement on Trump's illegal refusal to spend Congressionally-authorised Public Media funds:
https://www.kuow.org/stories/statement-trump-executive-order-public-media
Public media funding is complex - so for those of you who are following the news about Trump's executive order to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, this is how CPB works, and how it distributes money to public media stations across the country. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC485mf9LRM #NPR #PBS #PublicMedia
President Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's board of directors to "cease federal funding for NPR and PBS," the nation's primary public broadcasters.
Trump signs EO to defund PBS and NPR.
The latest authoritarian stunt from a man who calls truth “propaganda” and lies “patriotism.”
Silencing public media is a classic move in the autocrat playbook.
This is a threat to democracy.
Read: https://apple.news/AtSg80qhmSpGzb1umcxXBfg
#PublicMedia #Democracy #Trump #Censorship #Authoritarianism
#Trump, who has long accused #PBS & #NPR of *biased* [lie-free] coverage, signed an #ExecutiveOrder late Thurs seeking to end federal #funding for the 2 broadcasters. The immediate impact of the order was unclear. NPR & PBS get a small portion of their funds from #Congress through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, an #independent organization that funds #PublicMedia.
#RevengePolitics #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower #law #journalism #censorship
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/01/us/trump-news/ea955454-c1d0-5100-98a6-26b6fd71dcc5?smid=url-share
