'Sounds Like Racism To Me': Marjorie Taylor Greene Confronts NPR Exec Over Tracking System

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At today's House DOGE Committee hearing, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) excoriated executives from NPR and PBS.

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00:00The news that these entities produced is either resented or increasingly tuned out and turned

00:07off by most of the hardworking Americans who are forced to pay for it.

00:12They no longer view NPR and PBS as trusted news sources.

00:19As a matter of fact, with these people, they're a threat.

00:23In fact, when Elon Musk put his hand over his heart and extended it and told the American

00:31people his heart goes out to them, PBS, PBS News posted the clip, called it a fascist

00:44Nazi salute and described how it was similar to the same hail used by Nazis at their victory

00:51rallies.

00:52Not once did PBS or NPR report on the numerous accounts of Democrats making the same gesture.

01:01AOC, Kamala Harris, Barack Obama, Elizabeth Warren, somebody that lost a presidential

01:10race, Hillary Clinton, Tim, Governor Tim Walz.

01:15Why wasn't this treated exactly the same way?

01:21Is there not a standard in journalism today?

01:24Apparently not.

01:27Here's how we lost America's trust, was in fact the title of a powerful essay written

01:32last year by Yuri Berliner, a veteran NPR editor.

01:37In his essay, Berliner described how NPR's downward spiral accelerated greatly during

01:43the first Trump administration.

01:45He said NPR dedicated efforts to damage the Trump presidency via relentless pursuit of

01:51Russiagate rumors that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia over the election.

01:56NPR hosts interviewed Adam Schiff, then the top Democrat of the House Intelligence Committee,

02:0225 times about Trump and Russia, but they made no apologies when the Mueller report

02:08found no evidence that the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia because they did

02:13not.

02:15Berliner also described NPR's passionate and embrace of the left-wing DEI ideology that

02:21Americans clearly reject as evidenced by the November elections.

02:25NPR's language and style guides were shaped by race and gender-based affinity groups that

02:32dominated the internal culture of the organization, and NPR journalists were to ask everyone they

02:38interviewed their race, gender, and ethnicity, and enter it into a centralized tracking system.

02:47This tracking system embeds DEI into the fibers of its content.

02:53Sounds like racism to me.

02:55It's a software attached to NPR's content management system where these reporters and

03:01producers submit information about their sources' race and ethnicity, gender identity, geographic

03:07location, that's kind of scary, and age range.

03:11The tool allows NPR to track the demographics of their sources in real time to allow for

03:17source diversity.

03:18The irony of these supposed diverse sources is that NPR has no interest, real interest,

03:25in diversity, like having diverse viewpoints.

03:29Berliner tried to sound the alarm on this when he checked voter registration records

03:34of the editors at DC's NPR headquarters and found 87 registered Democrats and zero registered

03:44Republicans.

03:45But NPR treated Berliner like a political dissident in the old Soviet Union.

03:51He was driven out of the organization and forced to resign.

03:56Sounds like communism.

03:58And the ringleader of that effort was NPR's then newly appointed CEO, Catherine Marr,

04:05who is before us today.

04:06She dismissed Mr. Berliner's wake-up call as profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and

04:13demeaning.

04:14In other words, instead of viewing it as a chance to finally right the ship at NPR, she

04:19doubled down.

04:21In doing so, she made it clear how any further internal dissent would be dealt with on her

04:27watch.

04:28That does sound like communist China at the taxpayer's expense.

04:33And no one should be surprised NPR installed her in the top job after Ms. Marr was firmly

04:40on record with a litany of public comments and social media posts displaying her ultra-progressive

04:46views, her scorn for free speech, and her fondness for censorship.

04:51So now it's up to Congress to determine if Americans are going to continue to provide

04:56her and the organization that put her in charge, willingly, after they knew these things,

05:03with taxpayer funds to continue to pursue their progressive, or rather, communist agenda.

05:10For far too long, federal taxpayers have been forced to fund biased news.

05:16This needs to come to an end, and it needs to come to an end now.

05:21So I am glad Ms. Marr and Ms. Kerger accepted our invitation to show up today and be held

05:27accountable to the taxpayers.

05:29I look forward to them answering our questions in full public view and explaining to the

05:35American people why they think they deserve Americans' hard-earned taxpayer money.

05:42I request unanimous consent that Representative Jim Jordan from Ohio, Representative Ro Khanna

05:48from California, Representative Emily Randall from Washington be waved on to today's hearing

05:54for the purpose of asking questions.

'Sounds Like Racism To Me': Marjorie Taylor Greene Confronts NPR Exec Over Tracking System

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