Pamela Brown Defends NPR, PBS ‘Left-Wing Activism’ as ‘Journalism’

Nicholas Fondacaro | February 6, 2025
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In an appearance on Thursday’s CNN Newsroom, Republican Congressman Brandon Gill (TX) ran circles around host Pamela Brown and the network’s purported fact-checkers. At one point, Gill called out how taxpayers had been wasting money by paying for “left-wing activism” at NPR and PBS, to which Brown tried to defend it as just “journalism.” She also repeatedly warned him that CNN’s fact-checkers were ready to pounce, but Gill stayed many steps ahead of them.

When Brown tried to pin Gill on the possibility that some or all of the 7,030 federal employees in his district would be fired, Gill stated: “You know, my constituents are more focused than ever on our federal debt and our federal deficit, which is a result of Biden-level spending. They want to rightsize the federal government, and they want to get rid of left-wing activism.”

The example he gave of the left-wing activism he was talking about were the liberal media outlets of NPR and PBS. Which got a snide defensive remark from Brown.

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