In a surprise turn of events, Uri Berliner, the veteran journalist who blew the whistle on NPR last week, has announced his resignation from the legacy media outlet.
His resignation follows NPR’s CEO suspending Berliner for a week, without pay, after his seismic independent op-ed appeared in The Free Press.
The thing about Berliner is that he’s 100% correct—he hit the nail on the head with his op-ed piece.
One only needs to look at NPR’s sharply declining traffic to agree with what Berliner is saying. No matter our political stripes, there is only one true color in the end: green.
NPR’s overwhelming bias and fringe activism have cost the outlet scores of readers—whatever it is they’re selling, Americans don’t want it. Here’s Berliner’s resignation letter to CEO Katherine Maher:
My resignation letter to NPR CEO @krmaher pic.twitter.com/0hafVbcZAK
— Uri Berliner (@uberliner) April 17, 2024
Berliner wrote in The Free Press:
Conflicts between workers and bosses, between labor and management, are common in workplaces. NPR has had its share.
But what’s notable is the extent to which people at every level of NPR have comfortably coalesced around the progressive worldview.
And this, I believe, is the most damaging development at NPR: the absence of viewpoint diversity.
Meanwhile, at NPR, the current CEO who suspended Berliner without pay was exposed by intellectual and anti-communist activist Christopher F. Rufo.
“Katherine Maher says the “the number one challenge” in her fight against disinformation is “the First Amendment in the United States,” which makes it “a little bit tricky” to censor “bad information” and “the influence peddlers” who spread it. NPR’s censor-in-chief,” Rufo stated.
EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Maher says the "the number one challenge" in her fight against disinformation is "the First Amendment in the United States," which makes it "a little bit tricky" to censor "bad information" and "the influence peddlers" who spread it.
NPR's censor-in-chief. pic.twitter.com/0vY6hIpbmO
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 17, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Maher says that, as CEO of Wikipedia, she "took a very active approach to disinformation," coordinated censorship "through conversations with government," and suppressed content related to the pandemic and the 2020 election.
NPR's new censor-in-chief. pic.twitter.com/BoKZlrJuLE
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 17, 2024
Here's the new NPR CEO Katherine Maher (and former chief executive of Wikipedia) explaining that "the truth" is an outdated concept.
Everyone can have their own truth:
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 17, 2024
NPR CEO Katherine Maher says wikipedia is biased because it doesn't have enough non-binary and gender non-conforming writers, has too many male contributors, and uses written sources instead of "oral tradition"
She used to RUN wikipedia's parent company, and now runs NPR: pic.twitter.com/FPl7vCHIjE
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) April 17, 2024
Daily Mail provided this statement from NPR CEO Katherine Maher:
Maher insisted in a statement that the company remains committed to ‘serving all of the American public.’
‘Questioning whether our people are serving our mission with integrity, based on little more than the recognition of their identity, is profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning,’ she said.
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