The Republicans accused the public media NPR and PBS of bias at an audience of the Chamber Subcommittee on Wednesday, while the Democrats defended the organizations and criticized the event as a distraction of the current controversy on the use of the application of signal messages by the Trump administration for the communication of confidential information.
The president and executive director of PBS, Paula Kerger and the president and executive director of NPR, Katherine Maher, refuted the accusations of bias, saying that the points of sale comply with the journalistic standards and serve a diverse audience that includes rural spectators.
“I listen, respect and understand their concerns about bias and if public media are relevant in a commercial scene,” Maher said. “It is essential that the NPR writing room operates with the highest journalistic standards. That means that they do their job independently, and as CEO I do not have an editorial role in NPR.”
Minutes later, Kerger added: “PBS stations focus on the needs and interests of the spectators they serve. Especially in rural areas, PBS stations are the only points of sale that provide coverage for local events, for example, secondary sports, local history and culture content, candidate debates at each level of the electoral ballot and specialized agricultural news.”
The hearing, entitled “The Anti -American Waves: Responsible for the Chiefs of NPR and PBS”, was retained by the Government Efficiency Subcommittee (Doge), whose name is echoed in the Government’s efficiency department, the Trump administration cost reduction initiative supervised by Elon Musk.
The president and CEO of the Public Radiodice Service, Paula Kerger, testifies during an audience of the Government Reform Committee of the House of Representatives in the United States Capitol on March 26, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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The representative of the Chamber of Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of G-GA., Criticized NPR and PBS during the audience for what she called Liberal Bias, pointing to federal funds for the points of sale as the objective of possible cuts.
“NPR and PBS have become increasingly the left -wing radical cameras for a narrow audience of liberals and mostly urban progressive, rich, white, white,” Greene said.
The representative James Eat, R-Ky., He abruptly criticized NPR’s previous coverage on the origins of COVID-19 and a Chamber investigation into the Biden family, which he led.
“I think you have abused the privilege you had with the reception of federal funds,” he said, sitting in front of the posters with NPR headlines with which he said he gave him problems.
In response, Maher, from NPR, said: “I want to recognize his concerns,” noting that he had reinforced the editorial standards of the departure since he took his post last year.
The representative of the president of the Committee, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, observes during a hearing of the Government Reform Committee and Government Supervision on Public Transmission Services in Capitol Hill on March 26, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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The representative of the House of Representatives, Stephen Lynch, D-MA., Defended the public media and criticized the audience as a distraction for more important issues often addressed by the House Supervision Committee, the largest body to which the Dogs subcommittee belongs.
“I am sad to see this committee once proud, the main investigation committee in the House of Representatives, has now inclined to the lowest levels of partisanship and political theater to celebrate an audience to persecute the tastes of Elmo and Cookie Monster and Arthur the Aardvark,” Lynch said.
Later at the Audience, the representative Robert García, D-C., said Sarcastically: “Is Elmo now, or has he been a member of the Communist Party?”
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