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ED CEO Katherine Maher convinced the PBS on Wednesday that her exit was “non-partisan” after the president Donald TrumpThe latest executive command seeking the separation of the station.
In an interview on “PBS Newshour”, the boss eg -a destroyed Trumps Executive command To “cease federal funding for, for example,” calling it “discrimination against the view” and saying that Trump only draws it on for example, because it goes against his views.
“And so, this is an example of a textbook on the discrimination of an point of view from the point of view of the first amendment,” She saidAdding, “Basically, by blocking funding, for example, a PBS -in, it is a form of retaliation against our organizations for broadcasting a editorial program that the president cannot agree with.”
Executive director, for example, -a Katherine Maher scored the executive order of President Trump to stop federal financing for eg PBS during a recent PBS interview. (Screen Snap/PBS)
Trump has signed an order earlier this month, in which he ordered that the Corporation for Public broadcasting and other federal agencies stop funding eg other public media like PBS.
AND The text of the order Read: “For example, PBS has encouraged partisan and left -wing propaganda with dollars of taxpayers, which is a very inappropriate and irregular use of taxpayers’ money, as President Trump said.”
Maher’s Outlet, joined by three public stations in Colorado – Public Radio Colorado, Aspen Public Radio and Ksut – filed a lawsuit against a federal court on Tuesday. In a statementThe executive director, for example, said: “The executive command is a clear violation of the Constitution and the protection of the first amendment for freedom of speech and association and the freedom of the press.”
During the PBS interview Wednesday, Maher suggested that Trump’s executive command had violated “protective measures” established by the 1967 Public broadcasting Acting Law that holds “public media independent of the influence of the Government”.
PBS did not join the lawsuit, for example, but said that, among other things, the scale of legal capacity.
“PBS considers any option, including taking legal actions, to enable our organization to continue providing basic programming and services to members and all Americans,” a spokesman for PBS Said Jeremy Gaines earlier this week.
PBS Newshour anchor Geoff Bennett asked Maher about charges to promote liberal bias, for example, raising Claims of Republicansas well as those of the former editor, for example -a Uria Berliner.
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The executive director, for example, -a, Katherine Maher, opposed President Trump for her executive order, which reduced taxpayers’ funds, for example, -Ii PBS. (Screen Snap/CBS)
Berliner, who left for example in 2024, blowing a whistle At the exit of the free print essay the same year, for example, because of its “absence of diversity of views”.
Maher responded to criticism, declaring, “Well, first of all, I reply, saying that we are a non -partisan news organization. We want to provide a number of different views in the sense we bring in the air, the stories we talk.”
“It is my opinion that the wrong characterization of our work. We do not want to favor any political party at all. We try to ensure that Americans have a wide range of perspectives available,” she added.
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In response to Maher’s comments, a White house A spokesman for Fox News Digital:
“Public broadcast corporation (CPB) creates a media to support a particular political party on the dime of taxpayers. Therefore, the President performs his lawful authority to limit financing to, for example, PBS. The President has been elected mandate to ensure effective use of taxpayers and continue to use his just authority.
