Former NPR editor The former employer urged the rejection of federal support, indicating that the General Broadcasting Organization will only be blamed if the Congress chose to block government funds.
“NPR must restore its respect by doing something that no one at all in American life: rejecting government support. You go ahead with the game and say, we will survive without it. In other words: be really independent,” Books on Tuesday in “The Free Press”.
“If Congress eventually installs the company for the public broadcasting and its annual budget of $ 545 million that supports public television and radio, NPR will have to bear responsibility to a large extent. The announcer’s demands have been repeated about looking at all things and their mission to create a“ more enlightened group. ”
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The former NPR editor URi Berliner believes that NPR should refuse federal funding and adopt its progressive progressive tilt. (Saul Lub/AFP via Getty Images)
On Wednesday, NPR president witnessed a newly formed parliament for the sub -Committee for Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The Chairman of the Sub-Committee, DOGE, MP Margori Taylor Green, sent R-GA. I invited them to testify On what Green called “stark ideological and partisan coverage” and asked them to defend the federal funding they receive.
President Donald Trump expressed his desire to withdraw funding from NPR and PBS when he was asked about the correspondent session.
“I would like to do it, and I think it's very unfair. It was very biased – the entire group, the entire group,” Trump said on Tuesday.
Berliner said in his article on Tuesday, that “the ax can finally fall” on the NPR, which is inciting against the “public hostile administration” and a state that no longer buys the “identity policy” offered by the network.
Berliner resigned from NPR In April 2024, after it was suspended for not obtaining approval for external work for other ports, regarding the free press article, NPR coverage for Russia, the theory of laboratory leakage, Covid, the Hunter Biden fisherman's laboratory theory, and other polarizing topics.
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The editor, who has long been rampant to Berliner, was amazed by the media industry last year when he blew the whistle on the liberal bias NPR. (Fox News Digital/Getty Images)
Berliner was initially suspended in April for five days without pay before he decided to resign.
His allegations about NPR shook the media industry, as he wrote that the employer at the time was drifting from being “a little to the left” in 2011 to its current form, where he said, “An open spirit that no longer exists.” He wrote that “the absence of the diversity of the view” in NPR was afflicted with the company and that the claims raised calls from right to Defund NPR.
NPR editor, Edith, said that she and her team “do not agree strongly” with Berliner's evaluation of the quality and integrity of NPR.
However, last May, NPR created the “Backstop” examination that included a team of senior editors around the clock throughout the week “to ensure that all coverage has obtained a final editing review.” The process was created with the help of a $ 1.9 million grant from the General Broadcasting Corporation (CPB).
Catherine Maher, CEO of NPR, Paula Kerger, CEO of PBS in front of the DOGE sub -committee on Wednesday about the alleged biased content. (Llison Robbert/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Shauna Clinton/SPORTSFILE for web top via Getty Images; Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
Berliner said on Tuesday that he does not believe These new measures They work and urge NPR to “cultivate its gradual science without fear.”
“NPR must drop the audience from the statement of its mission and embrace the progressive. Don't try to hide what everyone already knows,” he wrote.
“Once recognized and exit in the open, there is a place for the invitation press.
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Joseph A. WULFSOHN and Brian Flood contributed to Fox News to this report.
