Katherine Maher, president and chief executive of National Public Radio, continued her sympathy tour to save NPR from the Trump administration’s executive order, with a pit stop at NPR’s publicly funded cohort, PBS’s News Hour program. When gently challenged that Trump says NPR lacks viewpoint diversity, she comically claimed: “I first of all, respond by saying we’re a nonpartisan news organization.”
Co-anchor Geoff Bennett interviewed Maher on Tuesday’s edition, where he explained that NPR’s lawsuit, joined by three public radio stations in Colorado, “contends the president’s order is a violation of the First Amendment.” Bennett read a PBS statement relaying that the network hasn’t joined NPR’s lawsuit but may take legal action in the future, then asked Maher, “What’s the case that you’re making against the Trump White House?”
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