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GOP Lawmakers Warn PBS And NPR CEOs They Want To Defund Public Media — Update


Republicans question the need for continued federal support for public media.

NPR and PBS were in the spotlight at a House hearing this morning before the Delivering on Government Efficiency subcommittee, as Republican grilled the CEOs of the public broadcasting outlets over alleged biases. She accused PBS and NPR of becoming “radical left wing echo chambers for a narrow audience of mostly wealthy white urban liberals and progressives who generally look down on and judge rural America.” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) posed a series of questions to PBS CEO Paula Kerger, in an effort to puncture holes in the argument that the network has an “extreme liberal agenda.”

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