NPR CEO Katherine Maher declines House hearing invite amid bias scandal

National Public Radio (NPR) Chief Katherine Maher volition not abide by a House committee's petition to look connected Wednesday, according to the organization. 

A spokesperson for NPR confirmed to Fox News Digital that Maher would not beryllium appearing arsenic requested earlier the House Committee connected Energy and Commerce, citing an all-day gathering with the organization's committee of directors. 

"NPR respects the Committee and its petition and has offered to attest connected a day successful the adjacent aboriginal that works for the Committee and Maher," the spokesperson said successful a statement. 

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NPR CEO Katherine Maher volition not beryllium appearing earlier the House committee connected Wednesday. (Getty Images)

According to NPR, the committee of directors gathering was antecedently scheduled and has been publically posted. 

"These meetings are scheduled much than a twelvemonth successful advance. This gathering volition beryllium Maher’s archetypal accidental to reappraisal and consult with the Board connected the challenges and opportunities facing the organization, including a strategy to pb NPR guardant successful fulfilling its nationalist work ngo to service each of America," they continued. 

The spokesperson noted that Maher has lone been CEO for six weeks, making specified a gathering that overmuch much important. 

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NPR has faced backlash for astir a period pursuing a scathing effort from a erstwhile elder editor.   (Getty Images)

"Maher is truthful incapable to be this week’s proceeding and has communicated that to the committee and projected alternate dates," the spokesperson said. "Maher volition supply written grounds successful her absence."

Last week, House Committee connected Energy and Commerce Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., wrote a missive to Maher requesting her quality connected Wednesday. 

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The House Energy & Commerce Committee, led by Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, is probing NPR and its CEO Katherine Maher (Getty Images)

"The Committee has concerns astir the absorption successful which NPR whitethorn beryllium headed nether past and contiguous leadership," the congresswoman explained. 

A committee spokesperson responded to Maher's determination to defy the petition successful a connection to Fox News Digital, remarking, "It speaks volumes that Ms. Maher has chosen not to look time to reply for however her taxpayer-funded quality outlet discriminates against the viewpoints of millions of Americans."

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NPR's caller CEO Katherine Maher has slammed critics, arguing they took her past statements retired of context. (Photo By Harry Murphy/Sportsfile for Web Summit Qatar via Getty Images)

"The Chair looks guardant to reviewing her thorough and transparent responses to the Committee’s letter," they added. 

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NPR has faced renewed scrutiny from Republicans implicit the past period since a then-senior exertion astatine the enactment aired important concerns astir its integrity successful an essay. Among different revelations, Uri Berliner discovered that the NPR newsroom was composed of astir wholly Democrats and nary Republicans. 

Some Republicans person called for national backing that is fixed to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) for NPR to beryllium revoked amid the discovery.