Fireworks are expected to fly on Capitol Hill, as the heads of the EMS and PBS should testify on Wednesday ahead of the newly established delivery of MPs on Government Efficiency (Doge).
President of DOGE pododbor, tail. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., Sent letters to the executive director of the ED, Katherine Maher and PBS Paul Kerger, inviting them to testify to what Greene called their “relaxed ideological and partisan cover” and state that they were defending the federal financial resources they were receiving.
“It’s all about,” Kerger said the New York Times in front of the hearing. “The future of many of our cells across the country will be at risk if this funding does not continue.”
The bosses, for example -ai PBS, have been testified on the Capitol hill in what is likely to be a disputed hearing of the dogs for Doge. (Llison Robbert/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Eva Marie Supartegui/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
President Donald Trump He expressed his desire to draw funds from, for example, PBS, when asked about a journalist hearing.
“I would love to do it,” Trump said on Tuesday. “I think it’s very unfair. It was a very biased group, the whole group of them.”
Trump insisted that taxpayers’ money be awarded, for example, a PBS “spending”, adding that it would be “honor” to reduce funds.
Depauw Jeffrey McCall University’s journalism professor suggested that Maher and Kerger face uphill at Greene-Lead.
“Basically nothing can say that Kerger and Maher will say that they will cancel the PBS record track and have been assembled for, for example,” said McCall. Fox News Digital. “If public broadcasts attempt to claim that they are centrist, they will lose all their credibility. If they admit they will be inclined, they also lose. And they could hardly promise to be more professional to save their means, because such promises would sound hollow.”
Trump says he would like to finance funding for, for example, PBS, would be “honored” to see him
In a letter sent to Kerger and Maher, Greene cited examples of what she called a partisan cover, from for example, the release of a scandal with a laptop of Hunter Biden at 2020, essay on all the bombs From the former editor of the eg URI Berlininer on the ultimate left editorial office to the PBS report in January, who said he was a billionaire and co-founder of the Ministry of Government Efficiency Elon Musk “gave what seemed like a fascist greeting. ”
“This type of bias issues the principles of objective reporting and undermines the public confidence. As an organization that receives federal funds, and directly and indirectly through its members, PBS should submit reporting that serves the whole public, not just a narrow slice of like -minded people and ideological interests,” Greene said, and also made Kerger.
The Doge-DOGE pododbor chair is expected to be Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-g. (Reuters/Jim Bourg)
“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.
Berliner, now an editor who contributes to the free press, Exposed prominent questions He would ask his former chief at the hearing, including if there were any regrets for past coverage, for example, like a laptop scandal with Hunter Biden laptop, did he take steps to expand the view of the staff of the newsroom and whether to consider financial restructuring to empower local stations.
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McCall, who was the director of news for the 1980s, said that, for example, PBS were founded in a “completely different” media landscape, where they served a stronger purpose, but now “attracts a fairly narrow audience these days”, and this is no longer needed by taxpayers.
“I think there are good reasons in the journalistic sphere to have left on the lean news. The question in today’s landscape is who should pay for it. And any government that provides dollars of taxpayers to present approved views, right or left, is leaning propaganda,” McCall told Fox News Digital.
Former editor, for example, -a Uri Berliner has outlined questions that would ask his former chief Katherine Maher at a hearing on Wednesday. (Fox News Digital/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% comes from “PRS contract, satellite interconnection and distribution, and the other 5% of the investment and e.g.
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.
Pbs’ website He states that it is partly received by public broadcast corporation (CPB), which receives about $ 500 million a year approved by Congress, saying that “CPB assigns the appropriation mainly to public television and radio stations, with some assigned for eg PBS to support national programming.”
PBS Executive Director Paul Kerger says “everything is” on the eve of the Dogeor Pododbor listening. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
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” 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.
Fox News’ Brian Flood contributed to this report.
