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NPR & PBS Responses

 

May 2, 2025
"Statement from Katherine Maher, NPR President and CEO, on White House Executive Order"

May 2, 2025
"A Note from NYPR's President & CEO Regarding Federal Funding for CPB, NPR and PBS"

May 21, 2025
PBS President Paula Kerger interview with Katie Couric

 

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April 8, 2025 VIDEO -- Senator John Kennedy
"John Kennedy Reads Headline After Headline From PBS,
Calls For Total End To Taxpayer Subsidization"

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April 15, 2025
"The NPR, PBS Grift Has Ripped Us Off for Too Long"

White House Press Release

May 1, 2025
"Ending Taxpayer Subsidization Of Biased Media"
President Trump Executive Order

 

 

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RECOVERING LOST HISTORY

July 20, 1999 hearing
House Commerce Committee Subcommittee on 
Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection


Tim Graham testimony

"...systemic failure of congressional and CPB oversight of public broadcasting. 
...
 In its confused standing as a "private corporation" that distributes billions of tax dollars, CPB does not answer to the Freedom of Information Act. In its current form, CPB sees itself as a "heat shield"-protecting the public broadcasting system from the scrutiny of Congress or the people it represents. Even the most extreme cases of outrageous content have drawn only inaction from CPB. ...

 

April 2005
Charter Establishing the CPB Office of the Ombudsman | CPB

May 2, 2005
"Republican Chairman Exerts Pressure on PBS, Alleging Biases"

NYT (Stephen Labaton, Lorne Manly)

May 17, 2005
Making PBS as "fair and balanced" as Fox
Salon (Eric Boehlert)

July 20, 2005
Kenneth Tomlinson | Video | C-SPAN.org

C-span (Brian Lamb)

Nov. 15, 2005
"Report Says Ex-Chief of Public TV Violated Federal Law"
NYT (Stephen Labaton)

"The CPB Investigation"
PBS

November 18, 2005
"Remarks by Representative Steve Rothman on The Importance of CPB’s Oversight Obligation"

January 4, 2006
"Remarks by Senator Sam Brownback on CPB Oversight"

August 30, 2006
"Broadcast Chief Misused Office, Inquiry Reports"
NYT (Stephen Labaton)

August 6, 2008
"Press Release: Rep. Cantor Urges Public Broadcasting to Conduct Objectivity and Balance Oversight"

October 24, 2008
"Rep. Sherman Reminds CPB of 'Mandate for Objectivity and Balance'"

February 1, 2011
"CPB charters a single ombudsman - Current"

March 7, 2011
"Time to Enforce Balance at PBS, NPR"
CAMERA -- Eric Rozenman

July 10, 2014
Ombudsman For the Corporation for Public Broadcasting | CPB

October 1, 2014
Ombudsman: Request for Proposals

2017
Ombudsman For the Corporation for Public Broadcasting | CPB

April 26, 2018
CPB Taps Schaffer to Serve as Ombudsman | TV Tech



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February 10, 2005
PBS to Review Editorial Standards for On-Air and Online Content

June 2005
PBS | Ombudsman | Mission & Approach


August 9, 2013
S. Dakota Indian Foster Care 1: Investigative Storytelling Gone Awry : NPR Public Editor : NPR

 

CURRENT

April 11, 2025
"Two ombudsmen will assist CPB in oversight role"

Jeremy Egner

November 21, 2005
"CPB ombuds give minor attention to balance"
Jeremy Egner

April 1, 2009
"CPB ombudsman details complaints"

January 5, 2011
Ongoing push to de-fund pubcasting still generating notes to CPB ombudsman - Current

March 12, 2012
Ombudsman seeks details on WAMU ‘meet the producers’ event

August 13, 2013
NPR ombud sharply criticizes acclaimed 2011 investigative story - Current
Current Andrew Lapin

January 15, 2018
Report: Most Americans don't cite NPR, PBS as objective - Current

April Simpson)

May 7, 2021
CPB has ‘no immediate plans’ to recruit new ombudsman - Current
Mike Janssen

April 8, 2025
Karen Everhart named Current interim executive director - Current

Dr. Marnel Niles Goins Named Dean of American University School of Communication | American University, Washington, D.C.


WASHINGTON POST

March 26, 2025
"Marjorie Taylor Greene battles NPR and PBS leaders in House hearing"
Washington Post    Anchorage Daily News    
(Laura Wagner)     May 30, 2023 announcement --

she maintained that NPR adheres to “unbiased, nonpartisan, fact-based reporting.”

“It is critical for the NPR newsroom to operate with the highest journalistic standards,” Maher said. “That means that they do their jobs independently, and, as CEO, I have no editorial role at NPR.”

quoting Victor Picard

"Compared with several other countries, the United States spends far less per capita on public media, said University of Pennsylvania media scholar Victor Pickard, author of 'Democracy Without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society.' The U.S. 'pays just over $1.50 per person per year,' he told The Washington Post. 'The Brits spend close to $100 per person per year for the BBC, and there are northern European countries that spend even more than that.'"

"For the reporters of Hell Gate, heaven is covering Mayor Eric Adams" Nov 2024

February 17, 2014
Monday roundup: Polk goes to Frontline, CPB ombud calls for transparency in grant dustup - Current
Drew Sefton

October 6, 2014
Monday roundup: WNYC revamps Schoolbook.org, CPB gives NPR $1 million for foreign coverage - Current

October 25, 2014
CPB ombud criticizes KUNM’s handling of plagiarism charges - Current
Andrew Lapin

September 13, 2024
"New York Public Radio cuts 26 positions, ends 'Notes From America' - Current
Janssen

February 25, 2025
New York Public Radio cuts 21 positions - Current
Janssen


 

"Trump's Censorship Czar Orders NPR and PBS Investigation"
Timothy Karr


Center for American Rights   Complaint to FCC vs CBS

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White House announces cancelling payments

Brandon Gill:

 

 

Kyle Becker

Brandon Gill: pushing leftist propaganda cannot be taking

 

FCC Enforcement Bureau

FCC Inspector General: Fara Damelin

 

NPR v. Trump complaint

 

PBS

Ombudsman Getler

April 24, 2017
A Farewell to Viewers, and Readers, Like You

September 20, 2017
Re-Introducing the Public Editor

madhulika sikka


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