The chairman of the Federal Communications Committee ordered a survey stating that it could be related to the lawyer's decision on whether to continue providing funds to public news organizations, involved in political arguments over NPR and PBS. I did it.
The chairman Brendan Kerr, a letter to NPR and PBS on Wednesday, focuses on whether the News Organization's membership bureau violates the government's rules by recognizing the financial sponsors of the news organization. I mentioned.
CARR stated that NPR and PBS Station were operated as non -profit broadcasting, but may be broadcasting “announced for commercial advertisements beyond the line.”
“As long as these taxpayers are used to support the entity that broadcasts commercial efforts or commercial ads,” Kar wrote. Dollar. “
This letter is the latest lawsuit to target NPR and PBS station from President Trump's allies, and public lawsuits for the taxpayers who support them. NPR and PBS Station executives are looking for potential battles over government funding and bet on financial worst scenarios.
Mr. Ker, who was appointed by Trump, said he did not see the reasons for the lawmakers to continue funding the organization. He said he was planning to notify the members of the Congress about his investigation.
In a statement, Maher of NPR said in a statement to use sponsorship, which is also known as “compliant with federal regulations.”
“I am convinced that programming and underwriting composition reviews will confirm NPR compliance with these rules,” said Maher. “We have been working with FCC for decades to support non -profitable educational broadcasting stations that provide important information, educational programming, and emergency warnings in the United States.”
PBS was proud of the “non -profitable education programming” in the statement, saying that he worked eagerly to follow the FCC underwriting rules.
FCC did not respond immediately to the comment request.
NPR and PBS have been broadcasting sponsorship for a long time based on the rules specified by the government, said Eric Nuzum, a former NPR executive and co -founder of the audio consulting and production company Magnistent Noise. Sponsorship and underwriting are very different from commercial television and radio ads in some respects.
“The difference is that in commercials, the sponsor can say anything they want. That's their time,” said Numm. “In the underwriting situation, the station provides approval of who provides funds, along with the basic information about the owner.”
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION's Advoca Cycle Director Seth Stern believes that CARR seems to have set up legal excuse to interfere with public media.
“The end of Mr. Car's letter is far beyond underwriting, and he talks about his thoughts on whether public media should be funded at all, and this underwriting problem is wider. States pointed out that it might be related to the above discussion, “said Stern. “It was troublesome to read.”
