Tim Graham of the Media Research Center, which documents liberal media bias, told The Epoch Times that the funding cut does not mean the end for PBS or NPR, and that they will instead need to make business decisions.

“Any business or nonprofit operation is going to struggle with that kind of revenue cut,” he said. “It’s by no means a fatal blow, not even to the small local stations that the public-media lobbyists drag out. They'll have to be leaner, and they might be even meaner to Republicans.”

The White House posted on X examples of bias at NPR and PBS.

Examples cited of alleged bias at PBS include a 2017 documentary titled “Real Boy” about the journey of a female who identifies as a male navigating “adolescence, sobriety, and physical and emotional ramifications of his changing gender identity.”

Another is a 2017 panel about what it means to be “woke,” “what is white privilege,” and whether “it is good to be colorblind.”

A third example, cited by the Media Research Center, shows that between June 2023 and November 2024, PBS NewsHour used the term “extreme right” 162 times, while it used the label “extreme left” just six times.

Other alleged instances of liberal bias at NPR include the outlet apologizing for calling illegal immigrants “illegal” and saying that the Declaration of Independence has “flaws and deeply ingrained hypocrisies” and that it “contains offensive language about Native Americans, including a racial slur.”

Graham said he doesn’t expect the alleged bias to change.

“Some conservatives have been nervous that if they have to go to leftist billionaires like George and Alex Soros, the bias would be worse,” he said. “It’s still better than making conservatives pay for their own destructive bias.”

Kaplan noted that a problem with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is that it got rid of its ombudsman.

“When I was CPB ombudsman, my charge was to examine objectivity and balance in public broadcasting, so I was able to examine specific examples of liberal bias,” he said.

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