NPR CEO pressed on implication that organization is biased after Trump signs order slashing taxpayer funds
NPR CEO Katherine Maher was asked to respond to the implication that NPR's news coverage was biased, as alleged in President Donald Trump's executive order slashing taxpayer funding, during an interview on CBS on Sunday."The language in there says government funding of news media and this environment is outdated and unnecessary, corrosive to the appearance of independence, and Americans have the right to expect if their tax dollars fund public broadcasting, that it’s fair, accurate, unbias