Down in the basement of the Capitol on Wednesday, I witnessed in person an episode of government accountability that upset liberal journalists. That’s because it was conservatives holding leftist “public” media networks accountable.
The House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency questioned PBS CEO Paula Kerger and NPR CEO Katherine Maher about their daily deluge of leftist bias. Here’s how The New York Times article on the hearing was summarized online: “Dark pronouncements by Republicans about a ‘communist agenda’ espoused by public media were intercut with lighter references to ‘Sesame Street’ and ‘Curious George.’”
Reporters Benjamin Mullin and Michael Grynbaum began: “Congressional Republicans laced into PBS and NPR on Wednesday, accusing the country’s biggest public media networks of institutional bias in a fiery hearing…