Accusations of bias at publicly funded National Public Radio have led some Republicans in Congress to introduce a bill to defund it.
NPR has been on the hot seat ever since Senior Business Editor Uri Berliner wrote this article for the Free Press website, in which he accused NPR of not only being biased, but completely devoid of any Republicans on the editorial staff.
Berliner told the “Honestly with Bari Weiss” podcast, “I got so frustrated with what I saw was the sort of the lack of different perspectives in our coverage that I decided to look at voter registration and, you know, my staff.”
Berliner said he found 87 registered Democrats and zero Republicans. NPR suspended Berliner for writing the article in violation of company policy. He then resigned.
The NPR controversy has led to fresh debate over whether the government should be funding news coverage at all, let alone one-sided news coverage. NPR has so far been unrepentant, with staffers telling the Washington Post they’re being targeted by conservative activists. USA Today columnist Ingrid Jacques wrote that NPR should be defunded.
Jacques told CBN News, “NPR is showing absolutely no inclination to change and seems to be brushing off these very
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