Earlier this month, President Donald Trump took an axe to the public broadcasting budget.

President Trump signed an executive order on May 1st, which ended federal funding for NPR in the Public Broadcasting Service, or PBS, over what he claims is bias in their programming.

PBS and NPR are America's leading public television and radio networks, respectively.

Both were established more than 50 years ago and given government funding by Congress in the process.

This week, NPR pushed back against Trump's executive order, saying the order is an attack on free speech.

How would you characterize the fight between National Public Radio and the president at the moment?

It's a fight that's going on on multiple levels.

That's our colleague Joe Flint. He covers media and entertainment.

So one aspect of the fight is the idea or question of whether the government should continue

to help fund public media. So there's been many attempts over the last several decades to end public funding, and Trump has just put it on the forefront.

He has pretty much said, I feel that they are biased, hence we shouldn't support them with taxpayer money.

But for NPR's CEO, Catherine Marr, this fight is about more than funding.

This is about the First Amendment.

It is our responsibility as a media organization when the principle of the free press is challenged to challenge back.

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It's Thursday, May 29th.

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