PBS Chief to Katie Couric: Give Me Examples of Bias on Our Network

COURIC: “The president — and I’ll tell you what some of the issues are, according to them — the president and the Republican Party say the impetus for all of this is bias in your coverage and creating ‘left-wing propaganda.’ the White House released a document accompanying the executive order criticizing PBS and NPR’s coverage of the pandemic and Hunter Biden, among other things, to say that this, you know, the information that you all are disseminating on PBS and NPR is basically biased. And I’m curious to hear your response to that.”
KERGER: “Yeah, I — I — you know, when I looked at there — there is a press release that has a sort of a fact sheet of — of the — the evidence of bias, the — and there isn’t a lot there to really talk about. I mean, in terms of the, you know, the Covid origins, we actually did fairly extensive coverage of, you know, the various theories, including the Wuhan lab theory, so it’s — that I don’t — I don’t understand the criticism. And always when people say, ‘We see bias in your programs...’ — and by the way, we get that on both sides, you know, I get as many calls from people on the more progressive side as on the conservative side that have issues every night — with every night’s broadcast, you know, I see this or I see that. Sometimes I wonder if they’re even watching the same program as we’re doing. But I do think that, you know, I always want specifics and examples. So give me an example. So, you’ve given two.”