To the editor: I’m thrilled Nationwide Public Radio has legally challenged the Trump administration’s misguided government order focusing on its appropriately sourced federal funds and relationships with native stations (“NPR and public radio stations sue Trump White House over funding cuts,” Could 27). I’ve grown accustomed to the measured objectivity and factual evaluation of the reporting by way of every day packages like “All Issues Thought of” and “Morning Version.”
We financially help NPR’s frequent funding drives not solely as a result of its revenues considerably depend on voluntary contributions from listeners, but in addition attributable to its prize-winning journalism that opens our eyes to hard-hitting home and worldwide information evaluation. The president’s weird claims that NPR fails to supply “honest, correct or unbiased” programming could be summarily rejected by those that truly take heed to the number of viewpoints included. NPR routinely covers essential occasions prefer it did with the president’s speech to a joint session of Congress in March and even uncommon audio of Supreme Courtroom oral arguments in regards to the birthright citizenship case, adopted by riveting unbiased protection.
Slicing this funding is greater than only a violation of free speech. America ought to chorus from emulating autocratic leaders in different societies that intentionally silence views they don’t like.
Anthony Arnaud, Laguna Niguel
