NPR
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The Assault on Good-for-You TV: C-SPAN and PBS Teeter as Trump Attacks
Programming spared from commercial pressure to serve viewers is suffering as politics and changing distribution weighs in
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WGAE Urges Senate to Halt Effort to Defund PBS and NPR, Says House Vote Is ‘Fueled by Radical Right-Wing Ideology’
A union spokesperson says the idea that slashing public broadcasting of $1.1 billion will offset national debt “is a total fabrication”
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House Republicans Vote to Slash $1.1 Billion in PBS, NPR Funds
President Trump moves a step closer to clawing back tax dollars previously earmarked for public broadcasters, who he has called “radical left monsters”
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Trump Calls on Congress to Erase $1.1 Billion in Public Broadcast Funds
The president’s rescission request comes after he signed an executive order to defund PBS and NPR last month
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NPR Sues Trump White House Over Move to Defund NPR, PBS
The lawsuit calls the President’s actions a “violation of the First Amendment”
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Ken Burns Calls PBS ‘the Declaration of Independence Applied to Broadcasting’ After Trump Slashes Funding | Video
The documentarian tells Anderson Cooper he could not have made his 40+ films anywhere else
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Muzzling Big Bird: Trump Tries to Silence the ‘Liberal Media’ of PBS and NPR
The executive order defunding these publicly funded outlets may not pass legal muster, but it reflects Trump’s habit of pivoting to culture-war issues when under pressure
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Trump Can’t Say It Out Loud, but He Really Doesn’t Like the First Amendment
The president’s attacks on “60 Minutes,” cable news and the AP underscore the hypocrisy of “Free speech for me, but not for thee”
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Marjorie Taylor Green-Led DOGE Panel Rips ‘Radical Left’ NPR and PBS, Calls to End Public Funding
NPR boss Katherine Maher was questioned about 2020 tweets in which she called President Trump a “fascist” and “deranged racist sociopath”
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Senator Richard Blumenthal Slams FCC’s ‘Unprecedented, Intrusive’ Investigations Into Paramount-Skydance, Comcast, NPR and PBS
The Democrat is heading an inquiry into the agency’s “apparent retaliatory actions against news organizations targeted by President Donald Trump”
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Elon Musk Suggests America Should ‘Defund NPR’ as Government Cuts Roll On
“It should survive on its own,” the X owner bluntly states of National Public Radio
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Washington Post Reviews Taylor Lorenz’s Social Media After Instagram Story Labels Biden ‘War Criminal’
A spokesperson for the newspaper confirms to TheWrap that they are “aware of the alleged social media post and are looking into it”
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Uri Berliner, NPR Editor Who Wrote Free Press Essay Criticizing NPR Bias, Joins The Free Press
Berliner, who joins as a senior editor, said the outlet “provides America with groundbreaking, fearless, and independent-minded journalism”
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Washington Post CEO Calls Reporter Who Exposed Quid Pro Quo Offer ‘an Activist, Not a Journalist’
Will Lewis doesn’t deny he offered NPR’s David Folkenflik an interview in exchange for dropping a negative story, says conversation was “off the record”
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Washington Post CEO Will Lewis Attempted to Kill Phone Hacking Story: ‘Drop the Story, Get the Interview’
“NPR published the story nonetheless,” NPR reporter David Folkenflik writes
