美国全国公共广播电台（NPR）总裁凯瑟琳·马赫尽管过去曾对第一修正案提出批评，但仍将于本月晚些时候获得《哈珀斯杂志》颁发的“第一修正案奖”。
NPR CEO Katherine Maher will receive Harper's Magazine's "First Amendment Award" later this month despite her past criticism of the amendment.
该杂志在今年早些时候关于马赫将于10月26日荣获詹姆斯·C·古代尔第一修正案奖的新闻稿中表示：“作为NPR的总裁兼首席执行官，凯瑟琳·马赫引领美国最重要的公共媒体机构之一度过了政治、法律和财务审查异常严苛的时期，重申了新闻业在民主社会中的核心作用。”
"As president and CEO of NPR, Katherine Maher has guided one of America’s most important public media institutions through a period of extraordinary political, legal, and financial scrutiny, reaffirming journalism’s essential role in a democratic society," the magazine said in a press release earlier this year about Maher receiving the James C. Goodale First Amendment Award on Oct. 26.
《哈珀斯杂志》还声称，马赫带领NPR“度过了审查和挑战加剧的时期”，并“成功抗击”了总统唐纳德·特朗普取消NPR联邦资助的努力，尽管国会仍在2025年削减了向公共广播公司提供的11亿美元联邦资金。
Harper's Magazine also claimed that Maher led NPR "through a period of heightened scrutiny and challenge" along with "successfully battling" President Donald Trump's efforts to defund NPR, though Congress still rescinded $1.1 billion in federal funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in 2025.
NPR在失去政府资金后获得民主党超级捐赠者8000万美元捐款，获得重大助力。尽管该杂志赞誉马赫是新闻业的捍卫者，但马赫并非一贯支持完整的第一修正案。
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2021年，当马赫担任监督维基百科的维基媒体基金会首席执行官时，她曾讨论打击虚信息的工作，并认为第一修正案实现该目标构成了“挑战”。
In 2021, when Maher was the CEO of Wikimedia, which oversees Wikipedia, she discussed efforts to combat disinformation and considered the First Amendment a "challenge" in that goal.
马赫说：“我们在这里看到的首要挑战当然是美国的第一修正案。（它）对权利提供了相当强有力的保护，这既是对平台的权利保护，我其实认为平台拥有这些权利以规范其网站上的内容是非常重要的。”
"The number one challenge here that we see is, of course, the First Amendment in the United States. [It] is a fairly robust protection of rights and that is a protection of rights both for platforms, which I actually think is very important that platforms have those rights to be able to regulate what kind of content they want on their sites," Maher said.
比尔·马赫向NPR采访者表示，他认为该媒体机构是“极左翼”。
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她补充说：“但这也意味着，要真正解决虚假信息源自何处以及围绕它形成真正市场经济的影响力贩子这些现实挑战，确实有点棘手。”NPR也曾有过存在争议的新闻报道历史。最引人注目的是，NPR在2020年总统大选前拒绝报道亨特·拜登的笔记本电脑丑闻，许多批评人士认为此举意在保护时任总统候选人乔·拜登。
She added, "But it also means that it is a little bit tricky to really address some of the real challenges of where does bad information come from, and sort of the influence peddlers who have made a real market economy around it." NPR has also had a history of questionable journalism. Most notably, NPR declined to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 ahead of the presidential election in what many critics saw as an effort to protect then-presidential candidate Joe Biden.
马赫直到2024年才被任命为NPR总裁，她后来承认该媒体“犯了错误”。NPR在收到1.13亿美元慈善捐款后向员工提供买断离职方案。
Maher, who was not appointed NPR CEO until 2024, later conceded that the publication "made a mistake." NPR OFFERING STAFF BUYOUTS AFTER RECEIVING $113 MILLION IN CHARITABLE GIFTS "I do want to say that NPR acknowledges we were mistaken in failing to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story more aggressively and sooner," Maher said during congressional testimony in 2025. Fox News Digital reached out to Harper's Magazine for comment.
马赫在2025年的国会听证会上表示：“我确实想说，NPR承认我们在未能更积极、更早地报道亨特·拜登笔记本电脑事件上是错误的。”福克斯新闻数字频道已联系《哈珀斯杂志》寻求置评。
Tim Graham, executive editor of the media watchdog NewsBusters, told Fox News Digital, "Harper's Magazine is demonstrating the usual liberal impulse, that being fiercely critical of Trump and the Republicans is what the First Amendment is all about. But NPR didn't hold President Biden accountable. Instead, they insisted that covering corruption in Biden's family was a 'distraction.'"
媒体监督机构NewsBusters执行主编蒂姆·格雷厄姆向福克斯新闻数字频道表示：“《哈珀斯杂志》表现出了通常的自由派冲动，即把对特朗普和共和党人进行猛烈批评视为第一修正案的全部意义。但NPR并没有让拜登总统承担责任。相反，他们坚称报道拜登家族的腐败是‘分散注意力’。”
"Their explanation for this pride is that Maher courageously fought off defunding NPR, which, of course, is not true. They are defunded. Liberals believe depriving NPR of taxpayer subsidies is some sort of First Amendment violation.
他继续说道：“他们为这种骄傲作出的解释是，马赫勇敢地击退了取消NPR资金的企图，这当然不是真的。他们的资金已经被取消了。自由派认为剥夺NPR的纳税人补贴是对第一修正案某种形式的违背。但NPR避免在其广播中出现任何支持特朗普的保守派来反驳他们所有的自由派偏见，这并非违反第一修正案。”
But it's not a First Amendment violation for NPR to avoid having any Trump-supporting conservatives on their airwaves to push back on all their liberal bias," he continued. "These people have no shame that Maher championed aggressive censorship of ‘bad information,’ just as European socialist countries have done.
他质问：“这些人竟然对马赫像欧洲社会主义国家那样拥护对‘不良信息’进行大肆审查毫无羞耻感。马赫在2021年的一次TED演讲中曾称第一修正案是一个‘挑战’、一个障碍，是让审查变得‘有点棘手’的东西。这怎么配得上第一修正案奖？？”
Maher said in a 2021 TED Talk that the First Amendment was a ‘challenge,’ a hurdle, something that makes censorship ‘a little bit trickier.’How does that deserve a First Amendment award??" he asked. NPR celebrated Maher receiving the award, pointing to its past statement when reached for a comment by Fox News Digital.
NPR对马赫获奖表示庆祝，并在福克斯新闻数字频道联系其置评时指向了其过往的声明。
"Public media exists to serve the public interest, and I can think of no greater service to the public than the defense of the First Amendment," Maher said in a comment.
马赫在评论中表示：“公共媒体的存在是为了服务公众利益，我认为没有比捍卫第一修正案更能服务公众的事情了。所有美国人的自由、想象力和首创精神在它的保护下蓬勃发展，以便我们能更好地了解世界和彼此。公民契约要求我们每个人在宪法权利受到威胁时挺身而出。我谨代表NPR和NPR网络，深感荣幸地接受这个奖项。”
"The freedom, imagination, and initiative of all Americans flourish with its protections, so that we may better understand the world and one another. The compact of citizenship asks that we each step up to defend our constitutional rights if they are threatened. On behalf of NPR and the NPR Network, I am deeply honored to accept this award."