NPR’s CEO has owned up to not giving the Hunter Biden laptop story the coverage it deserved.
Katherine Maher, an progressive who previously headed Wikipedia before starting at NPR last year, made the admission after being grilled relentlessly by Marjorie Taylor Greene on Capitol Hill about the broadcaster’s alleged bias.
‘I do want to say that NPR acknowledges we were mistaken in failing to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story more aggressively or sooner,’ Maher said at a point Wednesday.
At another moment in what’s already amounting to a bombshell hearing surrounding federal funding, Greene confronted Maher on some of her more opinionated announcements.
This included statements to social media before she was brought on back in 2020, which slammed Donald Trump as a ‘racist’ – not to mention ‘sociopath.’
When asked by GOPÂ Rep. Tim Burchett about those tweets, Maher said: ‘I regret those statements today.’
The rest of her statements carried a similar tone, with the CEO conceding the outlet ‘has work to do’ when it comes to reliable reporting.
Also questioned was PBS boss Paula Kerger – though Maher, seeming due to the makeup of her staff and past politicized comments, bore the brunt of it, leading to some admissions like the one surrounding the laptop scandal that emerged in 2020.
Katherine Maher, an ultra-progressive who previously headed Wikipedia, to not giving the Hunter Biden laptop story proper coverage on Capitol Hill Wednesday
‘Our current editorial leadership thinks that was a mistake, as do I,’ Maher said of NPR’s failure to cover the controversy, after the owner of a Delaware computer shop said the laptop had been left by the eventual president’s son in October of that year.
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