Fireworks are expected to fly on Capitol Hill, as NPR and PBS presidents will witness on Wednesday to the newly formed parliament on the sub -Committee for Governmental Efficiency (DOGE).
The Chairman of the Sub -Committee, MP Margori Taylor Green, sent messages to the CEO of NPR Catherine Maher and PAULA Kerger last month calling them to testify about what Green called “ideological and partisan coverage” and defended them for the federal financing they receive.
“Everything is at stake,” Kerger The New York Times was told Before the session. “The future of a number of our stations throughout the country will be in danger if this financing does not continue.”
NPR and PBS presidents have been appointed to testify on Capitol Hill, while he will be likely to be the controversial DOGE sub -session. (Llison Robert/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
President Donald Trump He expressed his desire to withdraw funding from NPR and PBS when he was asked about the session by a correspondent.
“I would like to do it,” Trump said on Tuesday. “I think it's very unfair. It was very biased- the entire group, the entire group.”
Trump insisted that the taxpayer money is allocated to NPR and PBS “lost”, adding that he will stress “to reduce financing.
Jeffrew McCalal's press professor at the University of Depauwi McCalat has suggested that Maher and Kirger are facing an arduous battle in the Green-Lead session.
McAkal told Fox News digital. “If the general broadcasting officials try to claim that they are parallels, they will lose all credibility. If they admit that they tend to the left, they are also losing. They cannot promise to be more professional in order to provide their financing, because such promises will seem hollow.”
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In the messages sent to Kerger and Maher, Grene cited examples of what he called party coverage, from the dismissal of NPR for the Hunter Biden laptop scandal in 2020, A bomb tells all the article From the former NPR editor URI Berliner about the advanced left -wing news room to the port to PBS reports in January, which said that the billionaire and the founder of the participating government competence Elusk.What seems to be a fascist greeting”
“This type of bias betrays the principles of objective reporting and undermines the confidence of the public. As an organization that receives federal funds, directly and indirectly through member stations, PBS must provide reports that all serve, and not just a narrow segment of individuals similar to thinking,“ I tell Green Kirger, also unlike from an atomic made to NPR.
The Chairman of the Sub -Committee is expected to grill Dujuri Taylor Green and R Ga. (Reuters/Jim Burg)
“This session is an opportunity for you to clarify the Congress and the American people. Why should federal funds for public television – especially the type of content produced by a TV program,” continued Green, echoing a statement similar to a dowry on the public radio.
Berliner, now a shareholder editor in Free Press, Parent questions He was asking his former president in the session, including whether there was any remorse for the previous coverage of NPR for things like the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, whether NPR had taken steps to expand the diversity of the view room and whether it would look at a financial restructuring to enable local stations.
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McCal, who served as a news manager for a company affiliated with NPR in the 1980s, said that NPR and PBS were founded in a “completely different” media scene where they served a stronger purpose but now “they liked a somewhat narrow audience these days” and that taxpayer funds are no longer necessary.
“I think there are good reasons for the presence of news in the field of journalism. The issue in the scene today is the one who must pay for it. Any government provides taxpayers dollars to provide accredited perspectives, right or left, tend towards advertising.”
Former NPR editor Uri Berliner included the questions that I will ask for former president Catherine Maher in the Congress session on Wednesday. (Fox News Digital/Getty Images)
according to NPR38 % of revenues come from corporate care, 31 % comes from “basic programming fees and other fees”, 13 % comes from “cash asset contributions and financial assets”, 7 % of “other revenues” come, and 5 % of “PRSS contract and satellite interconnection to investment.
The NPR site passes to the recognition that “the station programming fees include a large part of the largest source of revenue in NPR. Federal financing loss will undermine the ability of the stations to pay NPR to program, and thus weaken the institution.”
The NPR financing page also insists that eliminating federal financing will lead to a decrease in the press.
Therefore, while NPR reduces its government financing, the government's smaller stations give money to NPR. All this happens as NPR claims that “federal financing is necessary” while also retracts the idea that it is funded by the government.
Pbs' Website Countries that receive partial funding from the Public Broadcasting Corporation (CPB), which receive approximately $ 500 million annually accredited by Congress, saying: “CPB is often allocated to TV and public radio stations, with some setting to NPR and PBS to support national programming.”
PBS CEO, PBS, says, “Everything is at stake” before the Degus sub -session. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
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“the News clock About 35 % of the CPB and PBS annual financing/budget-a mix of CPB allocation boxes and the annual programming dues paid to PBS by the stations that have been expanded to programs like us. The remaining 65 % of the individual donations is created, the foundation and corporate care, “PBS.
PBS also receives money through the PBS Foundation, 501 (C) (3) non -profit and organization 509 (A) (3) that seeks “gifts and charitable grants” to finance the port.
Fox News' Brian Flood contributed to this report.
