NPR went to court and sued the Trump administration over the president’s executive order calling on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to deny federal funds to NPR and PBS. They claim it’s “a clear violation of the Constitution.”
NPR argues with a straight face that removing any taxpayer subsidies is a violation of the First Amendment. Apparently, liberal speech must be forcibly supported by conservative taxpayers for the Constitution to be upheld. NPR CEO Katherine Maher has even contended that defunding NPR would be violation of the free speech of NPR’s private backers.
Trained lawyer Dan Schneider exposes the nonsense. NPR is not a private broadcaster. It takes federal funds, and it has to live up to what the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 called for: “strict adherence to objectivity and balance” in programming. But the CPB has never…
