{"id":311686,"date":"2025-05-29T16:05:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T20:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?prc_email_campaign=npr-sues-trump-over-order-to-cut-funding"},"modified":"2026-06-08T12:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:20:29","slug":"npr-sues-trump-over-order-to-cut-funding","status":"publish","type":"prc_email_campaign","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/newsletter\/the-briefing\/npr-sues-trump-over-order-to-cut-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR sues Trump over order to cut funding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u2600\ufe0f Happy Thursday!<\/strong>\u00a0<em>The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information<\/em>.<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/sign-up-for-the-briefing\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/sign-up-for-the-briefing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Sign up here!<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In today<em>\u2019<\/em>s email:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li><strong>Featured story:<\/strong> NPR sues Trump over order to cut funding<\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>New from Pew Research Center: <\/strong>News influencers on Bluesky<\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>In other news:<\/strong> California, Google reduce their funding to local journalism initiative<\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>Looking ahead:<\/strong> New restrictions on Pentagon press coverage<\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>Chart of the week:<\/strong> More news influencers on Bluesky posted there as first three months of 2025 progressed<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udd25\u00a0<strong>Featured story<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tensions between President Donald Trump and U.S. public broadcasters continued to play out this week with two major developments:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li><strong>NPR<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/05\/27\/trump-npr-lawsuit-funding-order.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sued the Trump administration<\/a> over an executive order aimed at cutting all the organization\u2019s federal funding.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Reports emerged that the executive producer of a <strong>PBS<\/strong> documentary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/23\/arts\/television\/art-spiegelman-documentary-edited.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pushed to remove a scene critical of Trump<\/a>. Some see this as part of a recent pattern of media executives trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/05\/27\/trump-journalism-pressure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">temper coverage of Trump in fear of political retribution<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About a quarter of U.S. adults (24%) say <strong>Congress should remove federal funding from NPR and PBS,<\/strong> according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2025\/03\/26\/americans-more-likely-to-support-than-oppose-continuing-federal-funding-for-npr-and-pbs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pew Research Center survey conducted in March 2025<\/a>. A larger share (43%) say NPR and PBS<strong> should continue to receive funding from the federal government,<\/strong> while 33% say they are not sure.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democrats are much more likely than Republicans to regularly get news from NPR and PBS and to trust them as sources of news.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udea8 <strong>New from Pew Research Center<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, we identified a sample of 500 <strong>news influencers<\/strong> on major social media sites. <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2025\/05\/29\/bluesky-has-caught-on-with-many-news-influencers-but-x-remains-popular\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A new analysis reexamines this group of influencers<\/a> to see how many of them are now on <strong>Bluesky,<\/strong> which many have described as an alternative to X (formerly Twitter).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The share of news influencers in our 2024 sample with a Bluesky account roughly doubled in the four months after Election Day 2024, from 21% beforehand to 43% by March 2025. Influencers who explicitly identify with the political left are especially likely to be on Bluesky. At the same time, most of these influencers \u2013 including left-leaning ones \u2013 are also on X and post there frequently.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udccc\u00a0<strong>In other news<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li><strong>California, Google<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/05\/22\/californias-google-journalism-deal-00365927\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reduce their funding<\/a> to <strong>local journalism initiative<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/freedom-of-the-press-foundation-paramount-trump-settlement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Press freedom advocacy group threatens to sue<\/a> if <strong>Paramount<\/strong> settles with <strong>Trump<\/strong> over 60 Minutes interview\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/05\/23\/ftc-media-matters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FTC investigates Media Matters<\/a> over <strong>ad boycotts<\/strong> targeting <strong>Elon Musk\u2019s X<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>Business Insider<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/digital\/news\/business-insider-layoffs-shift-toward-ai-live-events-1236412950\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to cut 21% of staff<\/a> amid shift toward AI and live events\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>The New York Times <\/strong>and <strong>Amazon <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/05\/29\/the-new-york-times-and-amazon-ink-ai-licensing-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sign AI licensing deal<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>Washington Post<\/strong> Tech Guild <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/publications\/article\/406142\/washington-post-tech-workers-vote-to-form-a-unio.html?edition=138576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">votes to form a union<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/23\/style\/ditch-weekly-montauk-newspaper-hamptons.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">teen-led local newspaper<\/a> on <strong>Long Island<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Former <strong>LA Times reporter<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-05-27\/former-times-reporter-files-1st-amendment-suit-against-former-sheriff-villanueva-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sues Los Angeles County<\/a>, alleging violation of <strong>First Amendment rights<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udcc5\u00a0<strong>Looking ahead<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently announced new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/05\/24\/nx-s1-5410513\/defense-sec-hegseth-press-access-pentagon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">restrictions on journalists covering the Pentagon<\/a>, <strong>banning reporters from many areas of the building <\/strong>unless they are accompanied by a government escort. While Hegseth said the moves were to protect national security, the Pentagon Press Association <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/23\/hegseth-press-access-pentagon-leaks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called them<\/a> \u201ca <strong>direct attack on the freedom of the press<\/strong> and America\u2019s right to know what its military is doing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seven-in-ten Americans are at least somewhat concerned about potential restrictions on press freedom, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2025\/04\/24\/americans-remain-concerned-about-press-freedoms-but-partisan-views-have-flipped-since-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Center survey conducted earlier this year<\/a>. At the time of the survey in February and March, <strong>Americans who had been paying closer attention to news about the actions and initiatives of the Trump administration were more likely to be concerned.<\/strong> Among those who said they had been following news about the administration very or fairly closely, about half (49%) were extremely or very concerned, compared with 29% of those who had not been closely following such news.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udcca\u00a0<strong>Chart of the week<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week, our chart comes from a <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2025\/05\/29\/bluesky-has-caught-on-with-many-news-influencers-but-x-remains-popular\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new analysis of posting habits by news influencers<\/a> on Bluesky and X (formerly Twitter). During the first three months of 2025, an increasing share of news influencers on Bluesky posted on the platform. About half (54%) of news influencers on Bluesky posted there at least once in the first full week of January. This share grew to 66% in the last full week of March.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the same period, X remained popular but saw a small decline in posting: 92% of news influencers on X posted there in early January, compared with 87% in late March.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/SR_25.05.29_bluesky_4.png?resize=420,528\" alt=\"A line chart showing that news influencers increased activity on Bluesky, stayed relatively consistent on X in early 2025.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\ud83d\udc4b That&#8217;s all for this week.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Briefing is compiled by Pew Research Center staff, including Naomi Forman-Katz, Jacob Liedke, Christopher St. Aubin, Luxuan Wang and Emily Tomasik. 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