DOGE Subcommittee Chair Rep. MTG Summons NPR and PBS Chiefs to Testify Over ‘Systemically Biased Information Protection’ Funded by Taxpayers | The Gateway Pundit

The leaders of NPR and PBS are set to be grilled on Capitol Hill because the newly fashioned Delivering on Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), calls for solutions on why taxpayer {dollars} proceed to fund these far-left media shops.

Letters despatched to NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS President Paula Kerger on Monday morning accused the shops of manufacturing blatantly biased content material whereas nonetheless receiving tens of millions in federal funding.

The transfer alerts a direct problem to what conservatives have lengthy criticized as taxpayer-funded propaganda for the left.

In her letter to Maher, Rep. Greene highlighted NPR’s refusal to cowl the Hunter Biden laptop computer scandal in 2020, citing the outlet’s now-infamous assertion:

“We don’t wish to waste our time on tales that aren’t actually tales, and we don’t wish to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on tales which can be simply pure distractions.”

That so-called “distraction” was later verified as true—however NPR’s suppression of the story conveniently protected Joe Biden’s presidential marketing campaign.

NPR’s senior editor, Uri Berliner, resigned from his place final yr after he was suspended for attacking the community’s biased protection, notably regarding its protection of the Hunter Biden laptop computer story.

NPR is a liberal group. Everybody is aware of this. What you could not know is that after Trump gained the 2016 election, they went from liberal to full-on activist with a mission to wreck Trump as a lot as potential.

Much more damning are Maher’s personal phrases from 2022 whereas main Wikipedia, the place she recommended that “reverence for the reality could be a distraction.”

Watch the speech under:

Elon Musk instantly known as for the defunding of Nationwide Public Radio after the video resurfaces.

“Ought to your tax {dollars} actually be paying for a corporation run by individuals who suppose the reality is a “distraction”?”

In the meantime, PBS isn’t escaping scrutiny. Greene’s letter to PBS President Kerger known as out the community’s egregious bias, together with a current false declare that Elon Musk made a “fascist salute.”

The DOGE subcommittee is anticipated to grill PBS management over whether or not their protection really serves the whole public or merely caters to a leftist viewers.

Rep. William Timmons additionally issued an announcement expressing his help for MTG’s resolution to summon the far-left information shops.

“Rep. I totally help Rep. MTG’s name for the CEO’s of NPR and PBS to testify earlier than the GOP Oversight DOGE subcommittee. Taxpayer-funded media should reply for his or her bias and lack of accountability. The American folks deserve transparency!”

Elon Musk additionally praised Rep. MTG’s motion.