You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement in this country. William had been a senior correspondent at NPR for ten years when he was summarily fired by phone on Wednesday night for comments he made on Fox’s “O’Reilly Factor.” The specific percent of the $90 million that goes to NPR member stations is unclear. Third, NPR member stations receive funds from a $90 million per year congressionally mandated effort to support public radio stations in the U.S. This funding stream gave NPR $26 million per year in 2007, 20. Second, Congress appropriated a special three-year, $78 million funds specifically for NPR. First, CPB gives “occasional grants” to NPR, which totaled $8,015,374 since the beginning of 2009 to date ($4 million a year). On behalf of the American people who fund public radio and television, we remain committed to diversity of programming content, producers and viewpoints.”ĬPB funds NPR via three revenue streams. Levy said that “CPB is committed to … becoming even more diverse and focused on serving the needs of our changing society. NPR made a business decision to terminate Juan Williams’ contract.”

In response to Tomlinson, CPB’s Executive Vice President Michael Levy told HUMAN EVENTS exclusively that, “the Public Broadcasting Act requires CPB to assure that public television and radio stations and producers have ‘maximum freedom…from interference with, or control of, program content or other activities.’ NPR is an independent media business. “And the CPB should be using its bully pulpit to say, ‘This is wrong.’ The CPB should be on top of this.”

“The law demands that public broadcasting be balanced and public broadcasting be held to certain levels of accountability, said Tomlinson. “The CPB and the appropriate congressional committees should have the leadership of public broadcasting before them within a week to explain how this happened and to talk about new legislation that would prevent this kind of outrage from happening again,” Tomlinson told HUMAN EVENTS. Through the CPB, NPR receives tens of millions of taxpayer dollars annually as a public broadcasting entity, which by law, must be politically balanced. The CPB is an independent government agency that oversees the distribution of federal funds to public broadcasting outlets, including NPR and PBS. The aide told HUMAN EVENTS exclusively that a hearing could focus on the larger issue of whether taxpayers’ money is paying to suppress free speech at NPR. Barton in the next Congress, should voters trust Republicans with their vote in November.” Joe Barton (R.-Tex.), the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee which authorizes the money for CPB, said that, “it is very likely that this will be a priority for Mr.

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