{"id":2217956,"date":"2024-04-10T21:26:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T01:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/npr-chief-hits-back-at-whistleblower-who-says-colleagues-secretly-agree\/"},"modified":"2024-04-10T21:27:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T01:27:58","slug":"npr-chief-hits-back-at-whistleblower-who-says-colleagues-secretly-agree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/npr-chief-hits-back-at-whistleblower-who-says-colleagues-secretly-agree\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR Executive Responds to Whistleblower Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnpr-chief-hits-back-at-whistleblower-who-says-colleagues-secretly-agree%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2217956&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>NPR&#8217;s Editor-in-Chief,\u2063 Edith Chapin, responded to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washpost-the-transgender-industry-is-recklessly-endangering-kids\/\" title=\"WashPost: The Transgender Industry Is Recklessly Endangering Kids\">critical op-ed<\/a> by a veteran NPR editor alleging the\u2063 loss\u200b of America&#8217;s trust within\u200c the organization. The editor claimed that colleagues shared his \u200dconcerns. Chapin defended \u2064NPR&#8217;s journalistic\u200b quality and integrity in a memo to staff. This incident underscores \u2062the ongoing debate around diversity\u2062 of viewpoints and journalistic \u2063standards in media organizations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NPR Editor-in-Chief Edith Chapin hit back at the scathing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/we-lost-americas-trust-npr-veteran-says-network-has-lost-its-way\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">op-ed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  from a veteran NPR editor who wrote about how the outlet \u201clost America\u2019s trust\u201d and has said his colleagues \u201csecretly agree.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenMullin\/status\/1777773343267062201\/photo\/3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">response<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_campaign=post&#038;utm_medium=web&#038;fbclid=IwAR2BI7aGsLrw5JzADcxw-Ddx9IFpaQzQxVieieHiYiYvBozjQ3W_q8XSMoY_aem_Afb8djuPsGMotINI-8VtH0_ouA2n_5T1rMS3kvz8x_-AGiNOlKuozOh6WEdCnd1xeok&#038;triedRedirect=true\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Free Press article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  from NPR <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Senior Business Editor Uri Berliner, titled \u201cI\u2019ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here\u2019s How We Lost America\u2019s Trust,\u201d Chapin wrote in a memo to employees, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI and my colleagues on the leadership team strongly disagree with Uri\u2019s assessment of the quality of our journalism and the integrity of our newsroom processes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe\u2019re proud to stand behind the exceptional work that our desks and shows do to cover a wide range of challenging stories,\u201d Chapin added. \u201cWe 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.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, Chapin noted that \u201cnone of our work is above scrutiny or critique. We must have vigorous discussions in the newsroom about how we serve the public as a whole.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Speaking to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/10\/media\/npr-whistleblower-uri-berliner-said-colleagues-secretly-agree-with-him\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NewsNation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2019s Chris Cuomo, Berliner defended his op-ed \u2014 where he <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote that NPR no longer has an audience that \u201creflects America\u201d \u2014 pointing to a lack of \u201cviewpoint diversity,\u201d and said he\u2019s gotten \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a lot of support from colleagues, and many of them unexpected, who say they agree with me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSome of them say this confidentially,\u201d he added, noting that he wrote it because \u201cwe\u2019ve been too reluctant, too frightened to, too timid to deal with these things.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAnd I think that this is, this is the right opportunity to bring it all out in the open,\u201d Berliner continued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the piece, Berliner wrote how his network had \u201clost its way,\u201d pointing to various examples, including coverage of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/transgender\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/caitlyn-jenner-rules-out-running-for-governor-amidst-california-recall-effort\/\" title=\"Caitlyn Jenner Rules Out Running For Governor Amidst California Recall Effort\">transgender issues<\/a><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  and the refusal to use terms like \u201cbiological sex.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s frictionless \u2014 one story after another about instances of supposed racism, transphobia, signs of the climate apocalypse, Israel doing something bad, and the dire threat of Republican policies,\u201d Berliner said, adding that all appeared to be covered and framed in the same fashion. After George Floyd\u2019s death, he said the message came down from the top of the network, \u201cAmerica\u2019s infestation with systemic racism was declared loud and clear: it was a given.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIn a document called NPR Transgender Coverage Guidance\u2014disseminated by news management\u2014we\u2019re asked to avoid the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-education-board-vp-claims-biological-sex-isnt-a-scientific-fact\/\" title=\"Ohio Education Board VP Claims Biological Sex Isn't a \"Scientific Fact\"\">term biological sex<\/a>. (The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-great-cnn-collapse-continues\/\" title=\"The Great CNN Collapse Continues\">editorial guidance<\/a> was prepared with the help of a former staffer of the National Center for Transgender Equality.),\u201d Berliner wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-lost-americas-trust-npr-veteran-says-network-has-lost-its-way\/\" title=\"NPR Veteran Voices Concern Over Network's Trust Decline\">mindset animates bizarre stories\u2014<\/a>on how <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/12\/21\/1066022789\/beatles-get-back-band-guys\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Beatles<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/06\/05\/1002944505\/monuments-and-teams-have-changed-names-as-america-reckons-with-racism-birds-are-\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">bird names<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  are racially problematic, and others that are alarmingly divisive; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/codeswitch\/2020\/08\/27\/906642178\/one-authors-argument-in-defense-of-looting\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">justifying looting<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, with claims that fears about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/11\/08\/1134550280\/stories-about-crime-are-rife-with-misinformation-and-racism-critics-say\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">crime are racist<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">; and suggesting that Asian Americans who oppose affirmative action have been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/07\/02\/1183981097\/affirmative-action-asian-americans-poc\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">manipulated by<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  white conservatives,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR&#8217;s Edith Chapin responded to an op-ed by a veteran NPR editor criticizing the outlet&#8217;s loss of trust. The editor claimed colleagues &#8220;secretly agree&#8221; with his assessment. Uri Berliner, NPR&#8217;s Senior Business Editor, penned the article titled &#8220;I&#8217;ve Been at NPR for 25 Years,&#8221; prompting Chapin&#8217;s rebuttal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":2217957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/11\/Untitled-design-2022-11-03T143635.219.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2217956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/11\/Untitled-design-2022-11-03T143635.219.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2217956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2217957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}