GOP-Led House Committee Presses NPR Chief to Account For News Broadcaster’s Political Slant by Ryan Morgan – US Politics News

The Republican-led House Energy and Commerce Committee has called on National Public Radio (NPR) President and CEO Katherine Maher to appear before Congress and address questions about the broadcaster’s alleged ideological bias and slanted coverage.
The invitation comes in the weeks after now-former senior NPR editor Uri Berliner published an op-ed in The Free Press on April 9, alleging an increasingly leftward political tilt has emerged at NPR in recent years. Mr. Berliner—a 25-year employee of NPR, who until recently worked as a senior business editor for the radio broadcaster—said while there had once been an “open-minded spirit” in NPR’s radio and online coverage, the broadcaster now serves the “distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population,” namely the progressive political left….