It's Wednesday, April 2nd, 2026 from Peachfish Productions.

It's the gist. I'm Mike Peska.

I saw a big headline that seemed to be big news about NPR.

I'll read where I used to work and I'm very interested in.

I'll read the Washington Post treatment headline and subhead.

Judge rules Trump order eliminating NPR PBS funding is unconstitutional.

Trump's order violated the First Amendment rights of the public media giants, a federal judge

in Washington found. So you might say, ah, they're getting their funding back. They are not.

Congress clawed back the funding. That wasn't touched by this ruling. What this ruling does

is it talks about a Trump

executive order. And that Trump executive order was titled ending taxpayer subsidization

of biased media. Trump's saying NPR is the biased media. He put his cards on the table, gave

away the game, as it were, and said, we don't want NPR to have money. We don't want you to do business with NPR

because we don't like what NPR says. And that is indeed a First Amendment violation.

But I was thinking about this, and it's not as if the media reported this incorrectly.

It's not as if NPR reported this incorrectly. They had some of the best coverage of this

that I came across. But there is

an implication or there is a specter of what could happen if this judge's ruling were to stand up

to appeal and perhaps be overinterpreted. So I'm not reading an NPR report. I am reading an NPR

press release. Federal court delivers victory for press freedom in the First Amendment in NPR report. I am reading an NPR press release. Federal court delivers victory for

press freedom and the First Amendment in NPR's challenge to executive order. They were very

happy. NPR was very happy. They won their case. And I'm sure all the people that love NPR will be

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