NPR

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87 senior editors and every single one is registered Democrat.

I’ve been at NPR for 25 years. Here’s how we lost America’s trust.

[Newman]

After Being Completely Exposed by Its Own Editor, NPR Responds in the Worst Possible Fashion – RedState (Bonchie).

I'm happy to inform you that NPR has told NPR that NPR is doing just fine.

referring to this statement, NPR responds after editor says it has 'lost America's trust' : NPR

... NPR's chief news executive, Edith Chapin, wrote in a memo to staff Tuesday afternoon that she and the news leadership team strongly reject Berliner's assessment.

"We're proud to stand behind the exceptional work that our desks and shows do to cover a wide range of challenging stories," she wrote. "We believe that inclusion — among our staff, with our sourcing, and in our overall coverage — is critical to telling the nuanced stories of this country and our world."

Inclusion in our sourcing? Interesting journalistic principal.

NPR turns a harsh light on Berliner (many speculate he'll soon be axed),

Heated pushback in NPR's newsroom


Given Berliner's account of private conversations, several NPR journalists question whether they can now trust him with unguarded assessments about stories in real time. Others express frustration that he had not sought out comment in advance of publication. Berliner acknowledged to me that for this story, he did not seek NPR's approval to publish the piece, nor did he give the network advance notice.

Some of Berliner's NPR colleagues are responding heatedly. Fernando Alfonso, a senior supervising editor for digital news, wrote that he wholeheartedly rejected Berliner's critique of the coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict, for which NPR's journalists, like their peers, periodically put themselves at risk.

Alfonso also took issue with Berliner's concern over the focus on diversity at NPR.

"As a person of color who has often worked in newsrooms with little to no people who look like me, the efforts NPR has made to diversify its workforce and its sources are unique and appropriate given the news industry's long-standing lack of diversity," Alfonso says. "These efforts should be celebrated and not denigrated as Uri has done."
After this story was first published, Berliner contested Alfonso's characterization, saying his criticism of NPR is about the lack of diversity of viewpoints, not its diversity itself.

"I never criticized NPR's priority of achieving a more diverse workforce in terms of race, ethnicity and sexual orientation. I have not 'denigrated' NPR's newsroom diversity goals," Berliner said. "That's wrong."

and defends "diversity," not meaning diversity of opinion:

In recent years, NPR has greatly enhanced the percentage of people of color in its workforce and its executive ranks. Four out of 10 staffers are people of color; nearly half of NPR's leadership team identifies as Black, Asian or Latino.

"The philosophy is: Do you want to serve all of America and make sure it sounds like all of America, or not?" Lansing, who stepped down last month, says in response to Berliner's piece. "I'd welcome the argument against that."

"On radio, we were really lagging in our representation of an audience that makes us look like what America looks like today," Lansing says. The U.S. looks and sounds a lot different than it did in 1971, when NPR's first show was broadcast, Lansing says.

A network spokesperson says new NPR CEO Katherine Maher supports Chapin and her response to Berliner's critique.

The spokesperson says that Maher "believes that it's a healthy thing for a public service newsroom to engage in rigorous consideration of the needs of our audiences, including where we serve our mission well and where we can serve it better."

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In recent years, NPR has greatly enhanced the percentage of people of color in its workforce and its executive ranks. Four out of 10 staffers are people of color; nearly half of NPR's leadership team identifies as Black, Asian or Latino.

"The philosophy is: Do you want to serve all of America and make sure it sounds like all of America, or not?" Lansing, who stepped down last month, says in response to Berliner's piece. "I'd welcome the argument against that."

How many of your journalists are registered Republican? Pretty hard to serve all of America when you exclude representation of 48% of the population politically.

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[Michele]

NPRs response is some of the most ridiculous rationalize I've ever heard.

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DEFUND NPR

[scott]

NPRs response is some of the most ridiculous rationalize I've ever heard.

The crazy part is that this isn't just spin and responding to critics rhetorically, they actually believe what they wrote. They are that insulated, that tone deaf, that egotistic.

The comments on Twitter were hilarious - one "long time listener" said she was thankful for NPR because she doesn't want to hear conspiracy theories and disinformation. When others pointed out some things NPR didn't publish, she dismissed those as Trump disinformation and Q conspiracy theories. This lady is Bok on steroids, thinks NPR is the "center" and always tells the unvarnished truth.

[Celeste Chalfonte]

The crazy part is that this isn't just spin and responding to critics rhetorically, they actually believe what they wrote. They are that insulated, that tone deaf, that egotistic.

The comments on Twitter were hilarious - one "long time listener" said she was thankful for NPR because she doesn't want to hear conspiracy theories and disinformation. When others pointed out some things NPR didn't publish, she dismissed those as Trump disinformation and Q conspiracy theories. This lady is Bok on steroids, thinks NPR is the "center" and always tells the unvarnished truth.

I was raised by a political skeptic. Mom did not believe that any media outlet always told the unvarnished truth. We learned at an early age that the best government in the world engages in propaganda. That the cop on the corner will help if you're lost or in danger, but police organizations, especially at the national level, are not to be overly trusted. That there are good schools and bad schools, but none are entirely free of social and political bias, nor are they the ultimate source of truth. That neither political party is the sole source of good government, and all politicians will lie if they perceive a need to, while some will lie just because it works for them. That there are good people and hypocrites at every level of every institution, including government, schools (public and private), charities, and all religious organizations.

Her solution was to read everything from a variety of sources, and always to question the popular assumptions. She was a lifelong Democrat who sometimes voted for Republicans, a lifelong Christian who questioned and sometimes disagreed with church hierarchy, a woman with a high-school education who never feared to challenge those with advanced degrees who lacked common sense and practical knowledge (while ensuring that all of her kids had higher education), and a damned good role model.

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I was raised by a political skeptic. Mom did not believe that any media outlet always told the unvarnished truth. We learned at an early age that the best government in the world engages in propaganda. That the cop on the corner will help if you're lost or in danger, but police organizations, especially at the national level, are not to be overly trusted. That there are good schools and bad schools, but none are entirely free of social and political bias, nor are they the ultimate source of truth. That neither political party is the sole source of good government, and all politicians will lie if they perceive a need to, while some will lie just because it works for them. That there are good people and hypocrites at every level of every institution, including government, schools (public and private), charities, and all religious organizations.

Her solution was to read everything from a variety of sources, and always to question the popular assumptions. She was a lifelong Democrat who sometimes voted for Republicans, a lifelong Christian who questioned and sometimes disagreed with church hierarchy, a woman with a high-school education who never feared to challenge those with advanced degrees who lacked common sense and practical knowledge (while ensuring that all of her kids had higher education), and a damned good role model.

"It must be true. It was on the TV news".

I remember when that was a common belief.

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Hell, our local Hate-Trump newspaper published a letter to the editor only two or three days ago (I'm sure I can did it up later) that still claimed Trump wanted people to take ivermectin ("a horse dewormer") and ingest bleach for covid.

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87 senior editors and every single one is registered Democrat.

I’ve been at NPR for 25 years. Here’s how we lost America’s trust.

NPR Editor Uri Berliner suspended after essay criticizing network : NPR

The "print headline" at the link is, NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism.

Grapples. You gotta love it.

NPR has formally punished Uri Berliner, the senior editor who publicly argued a week ago that the network had "lost America's trust" by approaching news stories with a rigidly progressive mindset.

Berliner's five-day suspension without pay, which began last Friday, has not been previously reported.

Yet the public radio network is grappling in other ways with the fallout from Berliner's essay for the online news site The Free Press. It angered many of his colleagues, led NPR leaders to announce monthly internal reviews of the network's coverage, and gave fresh ammunition to conservative and partisan Republican critics of NPR, including former President Donald Trump.
Conservative activist Christopher Rufo is among those now targeting NPR's new chief executive, Katherine Maher, for messages she posted to social media years before joining the network. Among others, those posts include a 2020 tweet that called Trump racist and another that appeared to minimize rioting during social justice protests that year. Maher took the job at NPR last month — her first at a news organization.

Breitbart, Report: NPR Punishes Editor Who Blasted Network's Leftist Mindset (breitbart.com)

[Michele]

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update: Berliner quits. Maher grins. (OK, I added that.)

NPR whistleblower Uri Berliner resigns: ‘I cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged’ | Fox News

"I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years. I don’t support calls to defund NPR. I respect the integrity of my colleagues and wish for NPR to thrive and do important journalism. But I cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged by a new CEO whose divisive views confirm the very problems at NPR I cited in my Free Press essay," Berliner wrote in a statement published on X.

Berliner was referring to Katherine Maher, who took over last month as President and CEO and has gone viral for past social media posts showing far-left personal views.

also,

GOP senator eyes legislation to defund 'propagandist' NPR after suspension of whistleblower (nypost.com)

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🔥🔥 Which brings us to Chris Rufo’s latest article, published in City Journal yesterday under the headline “Katherine Maher’s Color Revolution.” The sub-headline added, “The NPR boss is a symbol of regime change—foreign and domestic.” Ms. Maher is in her late thirties and childless. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. The problem here is much worse.

Ms. Maher has occupied the news this week for other reasons than her unsurprising infecundity. Yesterday, the Hill ran a story about her headlined, “NPR chief knocks ‘bad faith distortion’ of social media posts.” Maher took over as CEO at NPR last month, arriving at the public broadcaster from her last narrative-shaping job: heading Wikimedia.

Katie Maher’s public interest arose after a longtime NPR editor, Uri Berliner, himself a left-leaning liberal, published an op-ed criticizing NPR’s wildly out-of-control liberal bias. As you might expect, gloating conservative “I told you so’s” and angry liberal hand-wringing followed.

Predictably, Berliner was forced out of NPR last week. But the attention drawn by his op-ed shined the krieglights on NPR’s newest CEO, Katherine Maher. Her vast archive of social media posts framed her profound familiarity with woke left buzzwords and phrases like, “structural privilege,” “epistemic emergency,” “transit justice,” “non-binary people,” “late-stage capitalism,” “cis white mobility privilege,” “the politics of representation,” and “folx,” whatever those things are. Katie enthusiastically supported Black Lives Matter from day one (and still does). She has compared driving cars with smoking cigarettes. And she frets deeply over “toxic masculinity.”

And, she calls Donald Trump a “deranged racist sociopath.”

Katherine’s crazy woke vocabulary became a minor scandal, as NPR pitifully tried to defend itself from Uri Berliner’s claims that it went too woke. But as Rufo kept picking at the scabs of Katherine’s man-hating feminist claptrap, he found another political layer. A deeper, darker layer. A very scary, troubling layer.

It now looks like Katherine Maher is nothing less than a deep state regime-toppling tool on the order of regime-change-queen Victoria Nuland, except younger and under deeper cover. Here’s part of how Rufo described what his research uncovered, which was a pretty bizarre resume for the CEO of what should be a public news agency. Maher’s career involved world travel while working for political nonprofits, and she managed to hit all the color-revolutionary hotspots like they were nightclubs along a bar-crawling gal’s trip:

That’s not all. It’s no wonder she’s had no time for romance. Katie has been a very busy girl. Rufo found her resume jam-packed with surprising security-state connections, connections dripping with portent, because when did the CEO of a government-funded public news agency start needing intelligence agency background?

As ominously as a surprise visit from the State Department’s Top Color Revolution Engineer Victoria Nuland, Katie Maher’s repatriation from the Middle East and her nesting at Wikipedia and NPR is a very bad sign for the United States:

I always told people not to trust Signal.
One possibly for what she’s doing at NPR might be described in one of her now-deleted blog posts from 2010, in which a very young and very idealistic Katie Maher mused about the role of media in terms of political control. In the scrubbed article, she described how gaining control of African media — in that case, radio — could ultimately provide “control over the state.”

According to Katie, one important key to state control is a “closed society.” It is unsurprising therefore that Maher is also an active and enthusiastic proponent of clamping down on “disinformation.”

[scott]

So this confirms what most of us have been saying for a very long time, NPR is government propaganda. It looks like it's much more than that, it's a window into what exactly the unelected bureaucrats are doing. If the USA is starting to feel like a third world country, that seems to be the intended result.