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The FCC is investigating NPR and PBS | FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr claims the public broadcasting stations could be violating federal law.
Carr said the investigations could lead to defunding NPR and PBS.
Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr has ordered investigations into NPR and PBS with the goal of slashing the money given to the government-funded organizations, TheNew York Times reports. The document, written by Heritage Foundation senior fellow Mike Gonzalez, called out public media’s “demonstrated pattern of bias” against conservatives. Most recently, in 2024, on the heels of his successful ouster of Harvard president Claudine Gay, right-wing strategist Chris Rufo launched a “campaign to expose” NPR CEO Katherine Maher’s “anti-speech, anti-truth philosophy.” As writer Renee DiResta pointed out, Rufo’s beef with Maher began with an essay by now-former NPR editor Uri Berliner published in the Free Press about how his employer had gone woke.
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