Brendan Car, the new director of President Donald Trump's new federal telecommunications committee (FCC), ordered NPR and PBS to investigate, and the public broadcaster “broadcast commercials has violated the federal law. There is a possibility. ”
car I wrote On Wednesday, Catherine Maha and Paula Carger, a letter to the President of NPR and PBS and the highest executive officer, “has broadcasted overline overline on commercial advertisements that are prohibited from NPR and PBS membership stations. There is a possibility. “
CARR has added that the survey is associated with the progressive legislative discussion of whether to exempt NPR and PBS, so that it has provided a copy of the letter to the members of the parliament.
“In particular, parliament is actively considering whether taxpayers have to stop requesting NPR and PBS programming. I myself have been in the Public Broadcasting Law in 1967. Cargers wrote that the parliament should keep sending taxpayers to NPR and PBS, in consideration of changes in the media market. “
“As long as these taxpayers are used to support profits or entities broadcasting commercial ads, they will further continue to fund NPR and PBS with taxpayers dollar. He will weaken any case, “he added.
According to NPRs, FCC supervises about 1,500 broadcasting stations throughout the United States, and has a license that uses public radio waves on radio and television. The public broadcasting station is forbidden to operate commercials, but “It is allowed to operate a corporate underwriting spot. The call is to be stopped. “
Both Kerger and Maher shared statements with NPR and refused to claim that public broadcasting stations have broken federal law.
“PBS is proud of non -profitable educational programming to all Americans through membership,” says Kerger. “We welcome the opportunity to work hard to follow the FCC underwriting rules and prove it to the committee.”
“I'm convinced that programming and underwriting composition reviews will confirm NPR compliance with these rules,” said Maher. “We have been working with FCC for decades to support non -profitable educational broadcasting stations that provide important information, educational programming, and emergency warnings in the United States.”
NPR stated that it gets about 1 % directly from the federal government every year, Report A broadcaster said that “almost 10 % of the budget is received from the Federal, State, and local governments indirectly.”
Republican members, including Trump, have long been sought to refund NPR and PBS over the clear left wing bias of the broadcasting station. In April 2024, NPR advanced editors presented some examples of explicit network bias. At that time, the NPR included the fact that 87 registered Democrats and Zero Republican members were employed at the Washington DC headquarters. NPR denies these claims and political prejudice accusations.
Following the revelation, Trump reinforced NPR again, phone Broadcasting station “Total fraud”.
“There is no NPR fund anymore. The editors say that there is no Republican member, and Trump said only for” damaging Trump. ” “They are liberal fake information machines. Not $ 1 !!!”
In December, House of Representatives Mike Johnson (R-LA) said in December that he would pay PBS as part of the Trump administration's DOGE-led effort to reduce excessive expenditures. 。
Catherine Hamilton is a political reporter in Bright Bart News. You can follow her with X @thekat_hamilton。
