Pododobor for Doge calls, for example, PBS chiefs to testify to their federal financing, “systemic biased content”
Exclusively – The newly opened podododbor for government efficiency (Doge) in the House of Representatives has invited the heads of the eg and PBS to testify at Capitol Hill to defend the federal financing they receive despite their “systemic biased content”.
Fox News Digital Obtained copies of a letter sent to Director of the Director Katherine Maher and PBS Paul Kerger on Monday morning from Dogeborn Pododbor, Tail. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a R-D, who intends to deal with the concerns of their “relaxed ideological and partisan coverage” at the upcoming hearing.
The letter addressed to Maher quoted the decision, for example, not to apply for a scandal with a laptop Hunter Biden in October 2020. For example, he said then, “We do not want to waste our time to stories that are not really stories, and we do not want to lose time of listeners and readers to stories that are just pure distractions.”
Also cited April 2024 essay on all the bombs Written by Veteran editor, for example, Uri Berliner, who put into the center of attention at the extremely left political bias of news that tortured the newsroom before throwing it out.
Executive director, for example, -a Katherine Maher (right), was asked to address the claims about her newspaper organization by longtime editor Uri Berlininer. (Fox News Digital/Getty Images)
The letter quoted by Berliner, who wrote “there is an unspoken consensus about stories that we should follow and how to frame them. Without friction is one story after the second about cases of alleged racism, transfoba, signs of climate apocalypse, Israel doing something bad, and terrible threat to Republican policies.
In addition, the letter included the comments made by Maher herself performed in 2022 as the Wikipedia CEO, who said that “our respect for the truth could be a disturbance that interfered with finding a common ground.”
A letter to Kerger was called to report to PBS report last month, which said the co-founder of billionaire and the Government Efficiency Department of Elon Musk “gave what seemed like a fascist greeting. “Greene wrote” the characterization was obviously false. ”
“This type of bias issues the principles of objective reporting and undermines the public confidence. As an organization that receives federal funds, directly and indirectly through its members, PBS should provide reporting that serves the entire public, not just a narrow slice of similar -all of the individuals and ideological interest groups “, Greene told Kerger, reflecting the mood also made on eg Maher.
“This is an opportunity to explain to the Congress and the US people why federal funds should be used for public television – especially the such content that PBS produced,” Greene continued, echoing a similar statement to Maher in connection with public radio.
Both executive directors were requested to be availability to testify “during the week on Monday, March 3rd or week Monday, March 24th.”
For example, PBS did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital Requests for comment.
Executive directors, for example -Ai PBS, invited the Doga House to testify to the federal financing of their received outlets and dealt with their “systemic biased content”. (Llison Robbert/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Eva Marie Supartegui/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
According to E.g.38% of revenue comes from corporate sponsors, 31% comes from “basic and other programming fees”, 13% comes from “contributions of cash and financial assets”, “7% comes from” other revenues “, 5% come from” PRSSA The contract, satellite interconnection and distribution “, an additional 5% comes from support for the Foundation and EM Foundation, and 1% comes from the net refund of investment.
For example, that that our own web site admits that “cell programming fees contain a significant part of the largest source of revenue, for example, loss of federal financing would disrupt cell ability to pay for, for example, programming, weakening the institution.”
The financing site, for example, is also insisting that the removal of federal funding would result in less journalism.
So, for example, while publicly diminishing its state funding, smaller cells funded by the government give money, for example. All this happens because for example, it claims that “federal funding is crucial,” while encouraging the idea of funding it.
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PBS website He states that it is partly received from the public broadcast corporation (CPB), which receives approximately $ 500 million a year that Congress has approved, saying that “CPB assigns the administration mainly to public television and radio stations, with some assigned eg -Ui PBS for support National programming. “
” Hour news It receives about 35% of their annual financing/budget from CPB and PBS through national program funds-combinations of CPB appropriation funds and annual program fees that have been paid to PBS stations that have re-deployed to programs like ours. The remaining 65% is generated from individual donations, foundations and corporate sponsors, “PBS states.
PBS also receives money via PBS Foundation, non -profit organization 501 (c) (3) and support organization 509 (a) (3) (3) seeking “philanthropic gifts and support” for the funding of the output.
PBS Executive Director Paul Kerger was asked to testify in front of the newly founded Dogefo Pododbor in March. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
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Last week President Trump FCC President Brendan Carr Launched an investigation For example, PBS, due to their commercial sponsors, despite receiving taxpayers’ funds, suggesting that they can violate the Federal Law. “
“To the extent that these taxpayers dollars are used to support the efforts of profits or entities that broadcast commercial commercials,” Carr wrote in a letter to the END and PBS, “then it would further undermine to continue funding eg PBS with and PBS dollars of taxpayers. “
Fox News’ Brian Flood contributed to this report.
