The main public radio network and three groups in Colorado--the Colorado Public Radio network, KAJX Aspen (which brands as "Aspen Public Radio") and KSUT Ignacio (in the "Four Corners" area of four states)--is claiming that the Trump Administration's calls for defunding NPR and PBS is violating the First Amendment because of allegations of "bias" by the right (never mind that some on the left have accused NPR on "both-siding" and "sanewashing" Trump) and that includes indirect payments to the networks (a lot of NPR stations, especially in rural areas, use the majority of their funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pay the membership fees to get the NPR drive time news shows that have the most listeners)--and like so many of Trump's executive orders, it is doing what Congress has to approve or has already approved:
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