CNN chief media analyst welcomed NPR’s lawsuit “hitting back” at the Trump Administration on Tuesday as the outlet argues that removing their federal funding via executive order violates the First Amendment.
Stelter’s first swing at the matter came during The Situation Room when he reported, “NPR says in the suit, quote, “The executive order violated the expressed will of Congress and the First Amendment’s bedrock guarantees of freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of association and also threatens the existence of a public radio system that millions of Americans across the country rely upon.”
CNN has the First Amendment right to be a liberally biased network, but NPR is required by law to maintain “strict adherence to objectivity and balance in all programs or series of programs of a controversial…
