NPR suits the Trump administration to cut off the US Federal Finance Freedom of news news

The lawsuit claims that the Trump administration’s move to reduce federal financing for public broadcasting is a violation of the first amendment to the United States constitution.

National Public Radio (NPR) and three of its local stations filed a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump, on the pretext that The executive matter aims to cut federal financing The organization is illegal.

The lawsuit, which was filed in the Federal Court on Tuesday in Washington, was by NPR and three local stations in Colorado – Colorado Public Radio, and the public radio and Kute Inc – argue that Trump’s executive order to reduce public subsidies to PBS and NPR violate the first amendment to the American constitution.

Trump issued the executive decree earlier this month, as he directed the Foundation to public broadcasting and other federal agencies “stop federal funding for NPR and PBS” and require that they eradicate the indirect public financing sources of news organizations. Trump issued the matter after he claimed a “bias” in the reports of broadcasters.

The public broadcasting company spends about $ 500 million on public television and radio annually. PBS and NPR get a portion of their funding from federal scholarships: 17 percent and 2 percent, respectively.

“The objectives of the matter cannot be more clear: It aims to punish NPR for news content and other programming that the president hates and cools the free practice of the rights of the first amendment by NPR and individual public radio stations throughout the country,” claiming the lawsuit.

She said: “This matter is revenge on textbooks and discrimination based on a view of violation of the first amendment, and it interferes with the freedom of the expressive association in NPR stations and local organs.”

The White House executive argue that the editorial options – including NPR “refused to cover the Hunter Biden laptop”, and that it was running “Valentine’s Day feature about” strange animals ” – was some of the reasons that wanted to cut federal financing.

“This is a revenge matter, a distinction based on a view of violation of the first modification,” Catherine Maher, CEO of NPR said in a statement.

“NPR has the right to the first amendment to liberation from the government’s attempts to control private speech as well as from revenge that aims to punish protected speech and pluralism. By establishing its directives on the essence of NPR programming, the executive order seeks to force NPR to adapt press standards and editorial options for government preferences if they continue to obtain federal financing.”

The absence of PBS from a file on Tuesday indicates that the two systems will challenge this separately; PBS has not yet gone to the court, but it is likely to do it soon.

The US President’s attempts to dismantle the government -run news sources such as Voice of America and Radio Free EUROPE/Radio Liberty sparked court clashes.

the The administration fought with the press on several fronts. The Federal Communications Committee is investigating ABC, CBS and NBC news. After the Associated Press refrained from calling the Gulf of Mexico “the Gulf of America”, as Trump brought out, the administration restricts the news port to some government events.