NPR, PBS honchos face tense grilling by GOP lawmakers over biased coverage, taxpayer funding

The CEOs of NPR and PBS sat for a high-intensity grilling on Capitol Hill Wednesday as they tried to defend their taxpayer-funded liberal news outlets from the wrath of Republicans.

Maher conceded that NPR botched coverage of Hunter Biden's infamous laptop, expressed regret about remarks she made about President Donald Trump before she ran the outlet, and was grilled on bias at her organization, while Kerger's PBS was accused of being "one of the founders of the trans child abuse industry."  Brian Flood is a media editor/reporter for FOX News Digital. Story tips can be sent to brian.flood@fox.com and on Twitter: @briansflood. 

Both PBS and NPR have been heavily criticized for political bias and for advancing leftist ideologies like gender ideology, such as a PBS movie called "Real Boy," which, according to PBS, follows a transgender-identifying teen as he "navigates adolescence, sobriety, and physical and emotional ramifications of his changing gender identity."