Npr Head Asks Critics To 'show Me A Story' That Proves Liberal Bias Amid Defunding Threats

NPR CEO Katherine Maher challenged critics to show her a communicative that would prove nan power web is biased connected Wednesday.

Maher defended her statement connected CNN's "The Situation Room" arsenic it faces efforts by President Donald Trump and legislature Republicans to region its national funding. Though Trump and different blimpish critics person accused NPR of being politically biased towards Democrats, Maher insisted that they "serve each Americans" and seemed to contradict immoderate bias.

"It doesn‘t thief anyone to return this backing away," Maher said. "As acold arsenic nan accusations that we‘re biased, I would guidelines up and say, ‘Please show maine a communicative that concerns you,’ because we want to cognize and we want to bring that speech backmost to our newsroom." 

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Newsbusters' Curtis Houck blasted NPR for ignoring years of governmental bias successful its reporting. (Getty Images)

She added, "We judge that, arsenic a nationalist broadcaster, we do person an responsibility to service each Americans, and we request to make judge that our sum reflects nan interests and perspective. And we perceive from Americans crossed nan governmental spectrum. That‘s important to us, and we want to make judge we unrecorded up to that."

Maher's comments received backlash from right-leaning societal media users who were speedy to supply examples.

"'We're present to service each Americans' is simply a humongous lie. NPR is present to service Democrats and Antifa and group who deliberation nan Communist Manifesto is simply a stirring book," Newsbusters executive editor Tim Graham wrote.

"Here you spell @krmaher! These are conscionable a few!" Libs of TikTok wrote pinch a photograph of respective NPR headlines.

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., posted a thread featuring videos of himself connected nan Senate level providing examples of NPR's governmental bias.

"NPR reported that state euphony and birds are racist, told American group to extremity eating beef, and promoted nan Russia-gate conspiracy. No personification pinch a encephalon supra a single-celled organism would telephone these articles adjacent and balanced," 1 tweet said.

Another read, "NPR claimed President Biden’s statesmanlike statement capacity didn’t alteration nan election, days earlier he dropped retired of nan race. If you judge that headline, you judge successful nan bony fairy. But that’s what NPR reported pinch your taxation dollars."

"NPR reported that location is nary grounds that biologic men person an unfair advantage complete biologic women successful sports. NPR besides called America’s interstate highways racist. I did not cognize our highways were racist. I thought they were concrete, but not according to NPR."

He concluded, "NPR referred to agrarian Americans arsenic ‘Christian nationalists’ and heaped praise connected Biden management charismatic Rachel Levine. I could spell each day. American taxpayers shouldn’t person to money this sentiment journalism."

Newsbusters managing editor Curtis Houck told Fox News Digital her comments "despicable and rancorous" and a "pants-on-fire lie," pointing to respective examples of NPR’s governmental bias, including their nonaccomplishment to screen nan Hunter Biden laptop scandal.

"Maher tin fastener herself successful an ideological bubble each she wants, but what she’s not entitled to are nan facts and poisoning nan assemblage politic pinch existent disinformation," Houck said.

Maher had admitted that ignoring nan Hunter Biden laptop communicative was a "mistake," but 1 that happened earlier she was appointed CEO successful 2024.

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President and CEO of National Public Radio Katherine Maher admitted successful 2024 that NPR dismissing nan Hunter Biden laptop communicative was a "mistake." (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Shortly aft she was named NPR CEO, however, NPR elder business editor Uri Berliner wrote a scathing rebuke of his publication and revealed that successful nan newsroom location were 87 registered Democrats successful NPR editorial positions and "zero Republicans."

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Maher besides came nether fire aft her aged societal media posts emerged featuring her openly supporting erstwhile President Joe Biden and attacking Trump starring up to nan 2020 election. She besides repeated respective left-leaning talking points, specified arsenic saying that spot harm was "not nan thing" Americans should beryllium upset complete during nan George Floyd riots.