NPR has been in the news lately.

I've lost confidence in public radio.

I don't think, Madam Chair, they should get a penny of federal funds.

That's Republican Congressman James Comer of Kentucky at a House hearing back in March.

The title of that hearing, Anti-American Airwaves Holding the Heads of NPR and PBS accountable.

NPR, of course, is the news outlet that makes this podcast a reminder here about how we

cover our own organization.

David Fokinflik, our media reporter, as well as his editors and other journalists like me

working on stories about NPRPR all operate without involvement from corporate

officials or news execs. At that March hearing, Republicans accused NPR of a liberal bias and

attacked social media posts that NPR CEO, Catherine Marr, made before she joined NPR.

Let me inform you that your federal funding is also paid for by the other half of the country.

That is Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Green from Georgia.

The 77 million Americans who voted for President Trump, someone you called a deranged racist sociopath.

Marr defended NPR's work. She also expressed regret for those tweets and for some of NPR's

past news coverage. I do want to say that NPR acknowledges that we were mistaken and failing to

cover the Hunter Biden laptop story more aggressively and sooner.

And she pointed to new initiatives aimed at ensuring fair journalism.

These changes came to the newsroom after one of our senior editors wrote an essay last year alleging liberal bias at NPR.

He has since resigned. Marr said NPR has sought to beef up our editorial practices,

bringing in more editors to make sure that we have more points of view reflected in every story.

Throughout the hearing, Republicans called for cutting or eliminating federal funding for public

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