The CEOs of NPR and PBS testified to the DOGE House subcommittee Wednesday on their use of federal funding to push biased reporting on the unsuspecting American public.
In a tense hearing helmed by DOGE Chairwoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS CEO Paula Kerger were grilled on their respective public broadcasting networks’ use of taxpayer money to fund slanted anti-Trump reports.
Rep. Greene held Maher’s feet to the fire over her previous tweets from 2020 illustrating clear Trump Derangement Syndrome, in which she called Trump a “deranged racist sociopath,” and her previous statements as former head of Wikipedia claiming “truth is a distraction” hindering Democrats’ progressive agenda.
Pointing out PBS News’ coverage of Elon Musk’s supposed Nazi salute earlier this year, Rep. Greene stated, “Not once did PBS or NPR report on the numerous accounts of Democrats making the same gesture. Why wasn’t this treated exactly the same way? Is there not a standard in journalism today? Apparently not.”
Rep. Greene also asked Kerger about her station’s creation of documentaries glorifying transgenderism and claiming trees are racist.
Maher also attempted to distance herself from comments made during a 2022 TED Talk, where she defended censorship and bias as Wikipedia CEO, stating, “Our reverence for the truth might have become a distraction that’s getting in the way of finding common ground and getting important things done.”
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) blasted Maher for NPR’s misrepresentation and distortion of his investigation into the Biden crime family, accusing NPR of propagandizing Americans with false, blatantly partisan adversarial reporting that skewed facts.
Throughout the hearing, various GOP congressmen highlighted NPR’s suspension of whistleblower and former editor Uri Berliner after he published an essay last year exposing and criticizing the political bias inside NPR’s newsroom.
“Concerned by the lack of viewpoint diversity, I looked at voter registration for our newsroom,” Berliner wrote at the time. “In D.C., where NPR is headquartered and many of us live, I found 87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans. None.”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) touched on Berliner’s accusations while questioning why NPR refused to report on the bombshell Hunter Biden laptop story, later proven true, to which Maher responded that it “was a mistake.”
“Yeah the whole country knows that was a mistake!” Jordan told her.
Maher also had to answer on how NPR got three major stories, the Russian collusion hoax, the Hunter Biden laptop, and the COVID lab-leak theory, 100% wrong.
The pair were also asked why Democrat Congressman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) was interviewed by their networks 25 times to spout anti-Trump rhetoric, compared to the zero times anyone was interviewed on Biden’s alleged crimes.
Meanwhile, Democrats like Rep. Jasmine Crockett (Texas) and Rep. Greg Casar (Texas) attempted to undermine the legitimacy of the hearing and frame the committee’s questions over taxpayer funding of propaganda as a “goofy” cause, with one Dem. rep. asking if Elmo was a communist because he’s a red puppet.
The whole time, the public broadcast CEOs claimed federal funding is a small part of their overall budget, with most funds coming from donations from “viewers like you” — yet, they claimed that DOGE cutting the federal support would directly impact local affiliates.
Watch the full hearing below:
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