{"id":2222372,"date":"2024-04-16T14:01:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T18:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/npr-suspends-senior-editor-who-blew-whistle-on-networks-liberal-bias\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T14:04:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T18:04:20","slug":"npr-suspends-senior-editor-who-blew-whistle-on-networks-liberal-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/npr-suspends-senior-editor-who-blew-whistle-on-networks-liberal-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR Suspends Senior Editor for Exposing Network&#8217;s Liberal Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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-suspends-senior-editor-who-blew-whistle-on-networks-liberal-bias%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=2222372&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>New NPR CEO Katherine \u2062Maher supports BLM riots and acknowledges\u200b her privilege, facing backlash. Senior editor \u2062Uri Berliner suspended for criticizing NPR&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/project-veritas-strips-cnn-naked\/\" title=\"Project Veritas Strips CNN Naked\">liberal bias<\/a>. Maher faces criticism \u200cfor minimizing rioting and sharing inflammatory views on social media.\u2063 Berliner suspension follows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miles-anonymous-taylor-accidentally-exposes-the-fraudulence-of-the-mainstream-media\/\" title=\"Miles 'Anonymous' Taylor Accidentally Exposes the Fraudulence of the Mainstream Media\">op-ed<\/a> outlining NPR&#8217;s left-wing bias. Maher&#8217;s comments spark controversy within NPR. Your summarized text \u200dlooks well-structured and informative, highlighting key points concisely. Well done!  <\/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<div>\n<h2>New CEO Katherine Maher, who pushed back on Uri Berliner&#8217;s criticism, has justified BLM riots and lamented her &#8216;cis white mobility privilege&#8217;<\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tL: Uri Berliner (Twitter) R: (Getty images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>NPR suspended senior editor Uri Berliner, who spoke out against NPR&#8217;s liberal bias, the taxpayer-funded outlet revealed in a story Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Berliner was suspended for five days without pay, beginning last Friday, NPR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/04\/16\/1244962042\/npr-editor-uri-berliner-suspended-essay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Berliner\u2019s suspension comes after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> an op-ed for the <em>Free Press<\/em> titled, &#8220;I\u2019ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here\u2019s How We Lost America\u2019s Trust,&#8221; in which he detailed how the outlet developed a &#8220;devastating&#8221; left-wing bias over the years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s true NPR has always had a liberal bent, but during most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed. We were nerdy, but not knee-jerk, activist, or scolding,&#8221; Berliner wrote. &#8220;In recent years, however, that has changed. Today, those who listen to NPR or read its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-silence-is-complicity-nprs-new-ceo-sounded-more-like-an-activist-than-a-journalist-in-2020-tweets\/\" title=\"NPR's New CEO Shifted Towards Activism in 2020 Tweets, Emphasizing 'White Silence is Complicity\">coverage online find<\/a> something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With declining ratings, sorry levels of trust, and an audience that has become less diverse over time, the trajectory for NPR is not promising,&#8221; he added later in the op-ed. &#8220;Two paths seem clear. We can keep doing what we\u2019re doing, hoping it will all work out. Or we could start over, with the basic building blocks of journalism. We could face up to where we\u2019ve gone wrong. News organizations don\u2019t go in for that kind of reckoning. But there\u2019s a good reason for NPR to be the first: we\u2019re the ones with the word public in our name.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Berliner\u2019s suspension also comes as new NPR CEO Katherine Maher is <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/nprs-new-ceo-downplayed-looting-property-damage-during-2020-riots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">battling a flurry of criticism<\/a> for her left-wing activism and inflammatory opinions that she shared on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Maher shrugged off widespread looting and property damage during the 2020 riots, saying it was &#8220;hard to be mad&#8221; about the destruction in a May 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/krmaher\/status\/1266974026053767169\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a>. &#8220;White silence is complicity. If you are white, today is the day to start a conversation in your community,&#8221; she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krmaher\/status\/1267624457897537536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> one day later.<\/p>\n<p>NPR\u2019s report on Berliner\u2019s suspension referred to Maher\u2019s tweets, noting that she &#8220;appeared to minimize rioting&#8221; in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In another post, Maher invoked her &#8220;cis white mobility privilege&#8221; as a reason to help the country get rid of the &#8220;spectre of tyranny&#8221; following the death of George Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lots of jokes about leaving the US, and I get it. But as someone with cis white mobility privilege, I\u2019m thinking I\u2019m staying and investing in ridding ourselves of this spectre of tyranny,&#8221; Maher wrote in a July 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/krmaher\/status\/1288830169587879937\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Berliner\u2019s suspension comes days after chief news executive Edith Chapin wrote in an April 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/04\/09\/1243755769\/npr-journalist-uri-berliner-trust-diversity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> that the network inclusion among staff is &#8220;critical&#8221; and that the newsroom will have a discussion on how to &#8220;serve the public as a whole.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re proud to stand behind the exceptional work that our desks and shows do to cover a wide range of challenging stories,&#8221;\u00a0 Chapin wrote. &#8220;We believe that inclusion\u2014among our staff, with our sourcing, and in our overall coverage\u2014is critical to telling the nuanced stories of this country and our world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;None of our work is above scrutiny or critique,&#8221; Chapin added. &#8220;We must have vigorous discussions in the newsroom about how we serve the public as a whole.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maher herself pushed back on Berliner\u2019s criticism two days later in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/npr-extra\/2024\/04\/12\/1244456600\/from-npr-president-and-ceo-katherine-maher-thoughts-on-our-mission-and-our-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">memo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Asking a question about whether we&#8217;re living up to our mission should always be fair game: after all, journalism is nothing if not hard questions,&#8221; Maher wrote. &#8220;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.&#8221;\t<\/p>\n<p>Maher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/15\/business\/media\/npr-chief-executive-criticized-over-tweets.html?partner=slack&#038;smid=sl-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the <em>New York Times<\/em> that &#8220;everyone is entitled to free speech as a private citizen,&#8221; while encouraging Americans to &#8220;listen, watch and read our work.&#8221; &#8220;What matters is NPR\u2019s work and my commitment as its C.E.O.: public service, editorial independence and the mission to serve all of the American public,&#8221; she added. &#8220;NPR is independent, beholden to no party, and without commercial interests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NPR did not return the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR suspends senior editor Uri Berliner for opposing liberal bias, as new CEO defends position on BLM riots and acknowledges personal privilege. 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