Sen. Ted Cruz grills 'complicit' Corporation for Public Broadcasting providing funding to scandal-plagued NPR

EXCLUSIVE - Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, sent a scathing letter to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) grilling the nonprofit that distributes federal funding to scandal-plagued NPR.

"I write today to express deep concern about National Public Radio’s (NPR) departure from its stated mission 'to create a more informed public' and to ‘distribute programming that meets the highest standards of public service in journalism,'" Cruz began his letter to CPB president and CEO Patricia de Stacy Harrison on Thursday. "NPR markets itself as a longstanding beacon of independent journalism, which is a critical component in fostering an informed and engaged public. Yet recent developments reveal a deeply entrenched culture of political bias and partisanship that stands directly at odds with the purported mission of this taxpayer-funded media organization."

The letter, first obtained by Fox News Digital, outlined the findings from the bombshell essay penned by ousted NPR editor Uri Berliner, who exposed the far-left ideological takeover of NPR's newsroom.

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"NPR’s persistent refusal to acknowledge its myriad journalistic errors, much less correct them, reveals a deep-seated partisanship. It also eviscerates the foundational trust and integrity expected of a public broadcaster," Cruz wrote, later adding, "This partisanship is all the more concerning because NPR benefits from federal funding allocated through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Such funding obligates NPR to a higher standard of journalistic integrity that represents the American public’s diverse perspectives. Unfortunately, NPR’s current trajectory signifies a stark deviation