Irony Alert: NPR CEO Who Said First Amendment is a “Challenge” to Receive ‘First Amendment Award’ * The Gateway Pundit * by Margaret Flavin– www.thegatewaypundit.com

In 2025, The Gateway Pundit reported that during a House Oversight DOGE subcommittee hearing, Republicans on the committee grilled NPR CEO Katherine Maher and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) CEO Paula Kerger over their anti-Trump bias and the extreme, woke programming on the stations.

This includes documentaries about transvestites and transitioning, “Racist Trees,” and exposing young children, including toddlers, to so-called educational programming that featured a cross-dressing freak.

Even more embarrassingly, in 2021, when she was the CEO of Wikimedia, she claimed the First Amendment was a “challenge” when it came to efforts to combat “disinformation,” and ‘reverence for the truth’ a ‘distraction.’

Maher stated, “The number one challenge here that we see is, of course, the First Amendment in the United States. [It] is a fairly robust protection of rights and that is a protection of rights both for platforms, which I actually think is very important that platforms have those rights to be able to regulate what kind of content they want on their sites.”

NPR’s CEO Katherine Maher: “Truth is a distraction from getting things done”

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