Ireland Owens
Both the National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broźna service (PBS) received much more taxpayers financing in the 2023 tax year than indicated to the tax returns in accordance with the Optenthebooks report published on Thursday.
On tax return For the financial year ending in September 2023, NPR informed that it received only USD 40,000 from American Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CBP), NON -PROFIT organization that invests in public transmission, According to For an optional analysis. According to the report, this amount accounted for only 0.04% of USD 98.57 million in the subsidy, which NPR received from “all parties” during this period.
Meanwhile, at the end of the 2023 tax year, the NPR had $ 388.5 million in total, the Openthebooks report was found.
In addition, PBS tax returns have shown that he received $ 22.74 million from the government, in accordance with the analysis of Openthebooks. Openthebooks stated that at the end of the financial year 2023 PBS had USD 641.23 million, which is an boost in USD 52 million compared to the previous year.
PBS CEO PAULA KERGER earns USD 1,055,135 remuneration and $ 113,526 in “Other compensation”, while three other PBS employees earn over USD 500,000. Meanwhile, NPR spent $ 5.18 million on wages for its officers and key employees, according to the report.
In March, both Kerger and the CEO of NPR and President Katherine Maher testified together with other witnesses in the Subcommittee of the Chamber for Government Performance (Doge) hearing As worried about the alleged biased insurance and financing of the organization’s taxpayers. Doge subcommittee wrote in press release It was published after the interrogation that “Republican members came to the conclusion that these media entities should not be financed by a wide tax audience.”
Some Republicans have accused NPR and PBS possession biased Media report. In March, President Donald Trump in particular he said That he would “love” separating and taking dollars of taxpayers from both organizations, citing “unfair” news.
In February, a republican senator Utah Mike Lee introduced The Act on the government sponsored by the government, which aims to stop the federal funds of PBS and NPR taxpayers, “in the light of many years of fears about their honesty and prejudice.”
Pew research center test Published in 2024, it was stated that 77% of Americans stated that they believed that information points usually favor one side by reporting political and social issues, while only 22% of respondents stated that they believe that information organizations deal with all parties.
NPR and PBS did not answer immediately at the Daily Caller News Foundation for comment.
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Ireland Owens is a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “NPR HQ” by Stephen Voss / NPR.org.
