Republicans and Democrats Spar Over NPR’s Taxpayer Funding by Jacob Burg – US Politics News

Republicans and Democrats fought over taxpayer funding for National Public Radio (NPR) on May 8 during a congressional hearing with the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
The hearing comes after former NPR senior business editor Uri Berliner published an April 9 op-ed criticizing the company for allegedly prioritizing Democratic and left-leaning viewpoints and story angles while dismissing conservative positions. Republicans were calling for an end to public funding for NPR, while Democrats largely dismissed the hearing as a “waste of time” and defended the broadcasting company and its public funding.
Republicans invited NPR CEO Katherine Maher to testify before the committee, but she declined, saying that May 8 was also the date of NPR’s annual board meeting. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) chastised Republicans for scheduling the hearing on the same day, calling it bad faith because the board meeting had been publicly posted “for at least a year.”…