The headquarters of public radio (NPR) in Washington, DC, United States, Monday, May 5, 2025.
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National public radio Tuesday, continued the president Donald Trump above his executive decree To stop any federal funding for the non -profit broadcaster.
Trump May 1 violates the protections of the speech of the first amendment and the press and the stages of the Congress Authority, NPR and three other public radio stations written in the trial deposited before a federal court in Washington, DC
Order “also threatens the existence of a public radio system on which millions of Americans across the country count for news and vital information”, according to the legal complaint against Trump and a handful of senior officials and federal agencies.
NPR and three of its member stations – Colorado Public Radio, Aspen Public Radio and KSUT Public Radio – want Trump’s order to be blocked and declared unconstitutional.
It “expressly aims to punish and control the media coverage of the complainants and other speeches that the administration deems” “,” Media lawyers wrote. “He cannot bear.”
NPR and the public Broadcast Service, or PBS, had previously promised to challenge Trump’s order, which affirms that the financing of the government of the news is “not only exceeded and useless but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence”.
Founded in 1970, NPR says It employs hundreds of journalists whose work is broadcast by more than 1,000 local stations. While most of its initial funding was allocated by the congress and awarded through the company for public broadcasting, or CPB, the arrangement was modified in the 1980s while the Reagan administration sought to reduce the financing of the public media.
Now the CPB sends federal money to the local members’ stations, which then buy the NPR programming. These member station fees represent 30% of the financing of the NPR, while only 1% of NPR revenues come directly from the federal government, According to the organization. Most of its financing, 36%, comes from the sponsorship of companies, according to NPR.
The trial maintains that Congress has long recognized that the discourse it supports public funding “remains private – and therefore fully protected against censorship, reprisals or other forms of government interference”.
“Yet the President-Criticizing What He Perceives As ‘Bias’ In The Award-Winning Journalism and Cultural Programming Produced by NPR-Has Issued An Executive Order that Thwarts Congress’s Intent and the First Amendment Rights of Plaintiffs to Be Free from the goverment’s Speech, and their rights to be free from retaliation love at punishing and chilling proteced speech, journalistic activities, and expressive association, “the wrote lawyers.
“Order is the reprisals of the textbooks and discrimination based on the point of view in violation of the first amendment,” they wrote.
