NPR's move to the left

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https://nypost.com/2024/04/16/media/npr-suspends-editor-uri-berliner-who-called-out-left-wing-bias/

Okay, not only is Katherine Maher solely unqualified to lead NPR as she has ZERO journalistic experience, she lead Wikipedia down the failure rat-hole, she hired a editorial staff of almost exclusively white males, counter to all her DEI Professions. On X, she called trump and Bill Maher "racist bigots." Bill Maher a racist? That would be news to all of his black girlfriends...

But this is just to show that Katherine Maher was never hired to do the right thing. She was hired thru nepotism, etc. That is just fact. 

The fiasco has also put the spotlight on Maher, whose own left-leaning bias came to light in a trove of ultra woke tweets she penned on X over the years. 

In January, when Maher was announced as NPR’s new leader, The Post revealed her penchant for parroting the progressive line on social media — including since-deleted Twitter posts like “Donald Trump is a racist,” which she wrote in 2018. She also called HBO’s Bill Maher a “racist bigot” in tweet that year.

Berliner said that among editorial staff at NPR’s Washington, DC, headquarters, he counted 87 registered Democrats and no Republicans. He wrote that he presented these findings to his colleagues at a May 2021 all-hands editorial staff meeting.

“When I suggested we had a diversity problem with a score of 87 Democrats and zero Republicans, the response wasn’t hostile,” Berliner wrote. “It was worse. It was met with profound indifference.”

The fiasco also ignited a firestorm of criticism from prominent conservatives — with former President Donald Trump demanding NPR’s federal funding be yanked — and has led to internal tumult, the New York Times reported Friday.

Berliner had told The Times he had not been disciplined by managers when interviewed last Thursday, though he received a note from his supervisor reminding him that NPR required its employees to clear speaking appearances and media requests with standards and media relations. 

 

He told The Times he didn’t run his initial remarks or those to the Gray Lady by NPR.  

Days earlier, Berliner appeared on Chris Cuomo’s show on NewsNation, telling the anchor that his essay garnered “a lot of support from colleagues, and many of them unexpected, who say they agree with me.”

“Some of them say this confidentially,” said Berliner, who added that he wrote the essay partly because “we’ve been too reluctant, too frightened to, too timid to deal with these things.”

Journalist Matt Taibbi also slammed Maher for her biased views, as well as her lefty resume, which he wrote in his substack Racket News, reads so much like “overeducated nonsense-babbling white ladies that it’s difficult to believe she’s real.”

Edited April 20 by DKW 86

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4 hours ago, DKW 86 said:

WTH does that even mean? He spent 25 years at NPR. Poured his life and soul into it. He criticized three specific things they could have done better. That is all. 

For that he has been crucified by his colleagues. They are OUTRAGED he got off message. Maher is no press person at all. She has failed at DEI at Wikipedia and has no concept of how to lead NPR. How do totally unqualified people get jobs like this? Nepotism?

He has resigned. When someone does what he did they may be ready to go.

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Well we all knew it was over as soon as he critiqued them. Some can’t take any criticism and Lord knows these people actually think they are perfect. 

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14 hours ago, aubiefifty said:

who you calling a puppet you muppet?

If the shoe fits. 

[homersapien 11,392]

18 hours ago, AUFAN78 said:

If the shoe fits. 

I don't think muppets have feet.

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3 hours ago, homersapien said:

I don't think muppets have feet.