Public Broadcasting Board Members Cry, Quote Shakespeare and Russell Crowe After Congress Yanks NPR Funding
'Is there bias? Sure,' admitted CPB president Pat Harrison
Chuck Ross
July 30, 2025
Multiple officials at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting cried during a board meeting last week and the agency's president recited lines from a Shakespeare tragedy—in an outpouring of emotion and drama over Congress's vote to cancel the organization's budget to fund NPR and other public media outlets because of liberal bias.
CPB president Pat Harrison and the organization's four board members took part in a board meeting on July 24, days after Congress voted to rescind $1.1 billion in federal funding that CPB allotted to NPR and local public radio and television stations. Republicans pushed the bill over what they've called the heavy left-leaning bias of NPR and PBS.
Harrison acknowledged bias at CPB, which she has overseen since 2005.
"Is there bias?" asked Harrison, according to an audio recording of the meeting. "Sure, we're not perfect, but we were working on that," she continued, adding that the leftward slant of public media is "not a legitimate reason to shut down everything."
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