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.
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 representative of the Chamber of Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of G-GA., Criticized NPR and PBS during the audience for alleged 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 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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Minutes later, 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 biggest body to which the Dux 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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