"NPR sues Trump administration over executive order to cut federal funding to public media"
National Public Radio and three local stations are suing President Donald Trump, arguing that an executive order aimed at cutting federal funding for the organization is illegal.
By David Bauder | AP Media Writer May 27, 2025, 9:34am CDT
Posted by JJSPC1372 on May 27, 2025, 8:40 pm, in reply to "NPR sues Trump"
The First Amendment argument is flawed because no one is saying any of these stations have to quit broadcasting, just that they have to stand on their own like all other commercial and non commercial broadcast licenses. If the programming is compelling enough, the listening audience will support it.
Re: NPR sues Trump
Posted by WYTZZ95FM on May 27, 2025, 11:02 pm, in reply to "Re: NPR sues Trump"
just that they have to stand on their own like all other commercial and non commercial broadcast licenses.
Your statement is massively flawed in itself, as they can't run commercials or do paid promotions. How do they stand up against commercial entities? Hence being "National Public Radio", a not for profit, not lets play the latest Bille Eilish and Post Molone song to profit.
You do realize how much funding NPR gets, % wise, from the government? 1%. The rest is not only listener funded, it is grant based from non government entities & once again, no, they can't nor, not have to stand on their own like other commercial or non commercial entities.
This is not intended toward you or your post. But the defunding of VOA and PR is detrimental to the security of the country, when we are being assailed by dark entities. VOA is supposed to reach off shores and defend against RT and Chinese propaganda, for example.
Z
Re: NPR sues Trump
Posted by JJSPC1372 on May 28, 2025, 5:17 am, in reply to "Re: NPR sues Trump"
As you say Z, Public Radio cannot do the some of the same things commercial stations do, but there are other non-profit groups that survive without government funding such as the Christian operators. They have to manage purely with private support, so why can't NPR? While funding from the government may be seem small at around 1%, CPB/NPR/PBS is set to receive $535 million this year. In the grand scheme of the federal budget it may not be huge, but also not a small chunk of change. Just my take, and I also respect yours. Cheers!
Re: NPR sues Trump
Posted by WYTZZ95FM on May 28, 2025, 12:52 pm, in reply to "Re: NPR sues Trump"
but there are other non-profit groups that survive without government funding such as the Christian operators.
JJSPC, the convoluted, unfair practices that specifically EMF operate under, allowing them to prosper as they do. I tried to find the article that eloquently spells it out. But found another one. When you look into it, it is a sham. Circumventing rules for market caps, tax write offs, unsupervised local studios, the typical record labels no longer sign or get airplay on EMF, all enclosed within their ecosystem of select mega churches. Once again it is not a fair playing field. It is because they are a religious entity expect from a lot of the "rules". How can a non-comm exist on 97.9? 95.5 New York which were not non-comm to begin with?????
Look, NPR is no more innocent like any other entity that money passes through hands. NPR news tends to be unbiased which FOX, MSNBC, OAN and even network news deliver and I do enjoy it. I am not big on their special segments and programming. Above my taste of consumption. I just have issues that funding is cut for them when the President is directing VOA to rebroadcast OAN news feeds so they can profit? Nope, no conflict of interest there. (sarcasm)
Full disclosure, I am Christian, but this is beyond robbing the poor as everyone is blind toward it.
on May 27, 2025, 10:24 am