Sean Moran at Breitbart reports that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is demanding the taxpayer-funded radio network turn over documents about their public and private funding over concerns that leftists are “buying” news coverage on the narratives they desire to push.
In a letter to NPR CEO Katherine Maher — who skipped out on a House hearing in May on NPR’s relentless bias — Cruz noted that legislatively, public broadcasting is supposed to provide “objectivity and balance in all programs or series of programs of a controversial nature,” language that NPR and PBS have never observed.
Cruz made the idealistic point: “If the American taxpayer is going to finance a public broadcaster, then they deserve nothing less than fair and unbiased reporting.” But that’s not what is happening:
NPR’s selective reporting may be driven not only by preexisting political bias…
