WOW, I have to commend this bold move from 25-year NPR veteran and network editor Uri Berliner.
The veteran journalist exposed the depth of the bias at the mainstream media network and lambasted NPR for refusing to run the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Berliner slammed the establishment staple as partisan scribes of the regime and activists catering to a ‘niche’ audience.
I couldn’t agree with him more, and his brilliantly written piece hits the nail squarely on the head.
Notable journalists and intellectuals all cheered the recent article and encouraged everyone to check it out; I highly encourage you to check it out as well!
Whoa!!!
This is whistle blowing on ideological bias at NPR on a whole new scale.
My hat is off to Uri Berliner. This took guts.https://t.co/J7v4PZiYMe
— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) April 9, 2024
Uri Berliner has worked at NPR for 25 years.
He still works there.
And today he published this essay in @TheFP:https://t.co/1AfiuFrFnB
— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) April 9, 2024
This article — by a liberal long employed at NPR — describes what happened in most media outlets since Trump's election: they explicitly renounced any journalistic function in favor of becoming political activists in defense of what they see as a greater cause than journalism: https://t.co/RdO5GTFTHj
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 9, 2024
Uri Berliner writes:
“An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR, and now, predictably, we don’t have an audience that reflects America.
That wouldn’t be a problem for an openly polemical news outlet serving a niche audience.
But for NPR, which purports to consider all things, it’s devastating both for its journalism and its business model.”
X Daily News presented some of the latest data on NPR’s traffic: “NPR’s traffic drops 20 percent YoY since leaving X/Twitter. There was a drop from 111.5 million [in] March 2023 to 90.1 million visitors [in] March 2024.”
NEWS: NPR’s traffic drops 20 percent YoY since leaving X/Twitter.
There was drop from 111.5 million (March 2023) to 90.1 million visitors (March 2024) pic.twitter.com/sT8jYrgpN9
— X Daily News (@xDaily) April 9, 2024
The New York Post reminded readers:
Initially, national security experts and former intelligence officials declared the laptop a hoax and was the product of a Russian disinformation campaign.
Social media sites like Twitter even barred its users from sharing links to The Post’s reporting.
The authenticity of the emails were later confirmed by independent experts and federal law enforcement officials.
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