DOGE UNDER COMMITTEE INVITS NPR, PBS CHIEFS TO WARNING ABOUT THEIR FORDE FINANCE, ‘SYSTEMIC PARTIC CONTENTS’

Exclusive – The newly created delivery of the Government Efficiency (DOGE) Sub -Committee (DOGE) has called on the head of NPR and PBS to testify to Capitol Hill to defend the federal funding they receive despite their “systemic partial content.”

Fox News Digital received copies of the letters sent to NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS Paula Kerger on Monday morning from DODE Sub -Committee Chairman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-GA. During an upcoming consultation.

The letter sent to Maher quoted NPR’s decision not to waste listeners and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions. ”

It also quoted Bombshell Tell-All Essay from April 2024, written by veteran NPR editor Uri Berliner, who focused on the newspaper’s far left political bias that plagued the news room before being pushed out.

NPR -SKANDAL: Whistleblower Skill Outlets Liberal Slant focuses on the organization’s federal funding

The quoted letter Berliner wrote “There is an unspoken consensus on the stories we have to pursue and how to framing. It is friction -free – a story after another about occurrences of suspected racism, transphobia, signs of climate -apocalypse, Israel is doing something bad and the serious threat of Republican policies.

In addition, the letter also included comments, Maher himself made in 2022 as Wikipedia CEO, who said “Our reverence for the truth may be a distraction that gets in the way of finding common ground.”

The letter to Kerger called PBS ‘reporting last month that the said billionaire and the Department of Government Efficiency founder Elon Musk “gave what seemed to be a fascist greeting.” Greene wrote “The characterization was clearly false.”

NPR’s ‘Obsession’ with DEI, Diversity ‘Tracking System’ examined after the veteran editor’s bomb shell essay

“This type of bias betrays the principles of objective reporting and undermines public confidence. As an organization receiving federal means, both directly and indirectly through its Member Stations, PBS should give reporting that earn the entire public, not just a narrow sample of similar “Minded individuals and ideological interest groups,” Greene told Kerger and mirrored a mood to NPR’s Maher as well.

“This hearing is an opportunity for you to explain to Congress and the American people, which is why federal funds should be used for public television – especially the kind of content produced by PBS,” Greene continued, repeating a similar statement as Maher regarding public radio.

Both CEOs were asked for their availability to testify “During the week on Monday, March 3 or week Monday, March 24.”

It seems that both PBS and NPR are willing to comply.

PBS provided Fox News Digital with the following statement: “PBS and our Member Stations are grateful to have top -notch support in Congress and our country. We have served this support of decades of non -commercial and non -partic work in local communities: giving all Americans With content they have confidence in;

NPR provided Fox News Digital with the following statement: “Since its inception, NPR has collaborated with local nonprofit public media organizations to meet critical need for news and information in America’s society. We are constantly striving to adhere to the highest standards of journalism as Moving of our publicly available standards and ethical guidelines, the presence of a public editor – a position submitted by all other major news organizations – which allows the public to directly, including a final review of the nearly 2,000 pieces of journalism sent Or published by our news room each month

According to NPR38% of revenue comes from company sponsorships, 31% comes from “core and other programming fees”, 13% come from “Contribution to cash and financial assets”, 7% comes from “other revenue”, 5% comes from “PRSS contract, Satellite connection and distribution, “Another 5% comes from endowers and the NPR Foundation Board-Designed support and 1% comes from net returns on investments.

NPR’s own place continues to admit that “station programming fees are a significant part of NPR’s largest source of income. The loss of federal funding would undermine the stations’ ability to pay NPR for programming and thereby weaken the institution.”

NPR’s financial page also insists that elimination of federal funding would result in less journalism.

So even though NPR publicly enters its government financing, smaller stations financed by the government, cash to NPR. All of this happens as NPR claims “federal funding is important”, while also pushing back on the notion that it is funded by the government.

PBS JUDRO: ‘Experts’ say it ‘can take more election cycles’ for us to rebuild Europe’s trust after Trump

PBS ‘Website States, that it is partly receiving funding from Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which receives approx. $ 500 million a year approved by Congress and says “CPB is awarding it mostly to public TV and radio stations, with some awarded NPR and PBS to support national programming.”

“The News time Receives approx. 35% of its annual financing/budget from CPB and PBS via national programming funds — a combination of CPB grant funds and annual programming quota paid to PBS of stations assigned to programs such as ours. The remaining 65% are generated from individual donations, founding grants and corporate sponsorships, ”says PBS.

PBS also receives money through the PBS Foundation, EN 501 (C) (3) nonprofit organization and EN 509 (A) (3) that supports organization that seeks “philanthropic gifts and grants” to finance the outlets.

Click here to get the Fox News app

Last week, President Trump’s FCC chairman Brendan Carr launched a survey by NPR and PBS about their commercial sponsorships despite receiving taxpayers’ funds, suggesting they could violate federal law. “

“To the extent that these taxpayers’ dollars are used to support a pre-profit endeavor or device that sends out commercial advertisements,” Carr wrote in a letter to NPR and PBS, “it would further undermine any case to continue Finance NPR and PBS with taxpayers’ dollars.

Fox News’ Brian Flood contributed to this report.