{"id":2223190,"date":"2024-04-17T12:50:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T16:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/npr-senior-editor-resigns-after-blowing-whistle-on-networks-liberal-bias\/"},"modified":"2024-04-17T12:52:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T16:52:34","slug":"npr-senior-editor-resigns-after-blowing-whistle-on-networks-liberal-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/npr-senior-editor-resigns-after-blowing-whistle-on-networks-liberal-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior NPR Editor Steps Down Following Disclosure of 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\">22<\/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-senior-editor-resigns-after-blowing-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=2223190&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 senior editor, Uri Berliner, resigns after criticizing \u200dNPR&#8217;s shift towards liberalism and CEO Katherine Maher&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-call-for-investigation-into-federally-funded-critical-race-theory-program\/\" title=\"Lawmakers Call for Investigation Into Federally-Funded Critical Race Theory Program\">divisive views<\/a>.&#8221; Berliner&#8217;s resignation highlighted Maher&#8217;s response to his critique and his belief that NPR lost America&#8217;s trust \u2063by adopting a biased perspective. \u200dMaher defended NPR&#8217;s mission \u200din a memo, leading to Berliner&#8217;s decision to\u200b step down \u200cfrom the organization. Your summary \u200bprovides a concise overview of the situation involving NPR senior editor\u2062 Uri\u200c Berliner, his resignation, and the reasons behind it,\u200b particularly regarding NPR&#8217;s perceived shift towards\u200b liberalism and the CEO&#8217;s views. It \u2062effectively captures the key points of the story, highlighting the tensions within NPR and the impact on Berliner&#8217;s\u200d decision to leave.  <\/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>Uri Berliner says CEO Katherine Maher\u2019s \u2018divisive views\u2019 are part of the problem at NPR<\/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 senior editor Uri Berliner resigned from the company on Wednesday after he was suspended for speaking out against the taxpayer-funded outlet\u2019s transformation into a liberal echo chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Berliner\u2019s resignation announcement noted the way that NPR\u2019s new CEO, Katherine Maher, reacted to his critique of the network, as well as Maher\u2019s &#8220;divisive views.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years. I don\u2019t support calls to defund NPR. I respect the integrity of my colleagues and wish for NPR to thrive and do important journalism,&#8221; Berliner <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uberliner\/status\/1780610524411048183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> on X, formerly Twitter. &#8220;But I cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged by a new CEO whose divisive views confirm the very problems at NPR I cite in my <em>Free Press<\/em> essay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On April 9, Berliner <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 lamented how the <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\">outlet developed<\/a> a &#8220;devastating&#8221; 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 coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maher pushed back on Berliner\u2019s criticism 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>, calling it &#8220;disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning.&#8221;<\/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;<\/p>\n<p>Maher, meanwhile, is battling <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/nprs-new-ceo-downplayed-looting-property-damage-during-2020-riots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticism<\/a> for her left-wing activism and inflammatory opinions\u2014such as excusing rioting and looting in 2020\u2014which she consistently aired on social media prior to joining NPR.<\/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>In another post, Maher invoked her &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/npr-suspends-senior-editor-who-blew-whistle-on-networks-liberal-bias\/\" title=\"NPR Suspends Senior Editor for Exposing Network's Liberal Bias\">cis white mobility privilege<\/a>&#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 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krmaher\/status\/1288830169587879937\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> in July 2020.\t<\/p>\n<p>NPR did not return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Maher is <a href=\"https:\/\/disinformationjournalism.splashthat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slated<\/a> to speak at an event called &#8220;Disinformation, Journalism, and Technology: A Conversation with Katherine Maher&#8221; with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on Wednesday. There, she plans to speak about how &#8220;malicious falsehoods can be damaging&#8221; to democracies and the role journalists have in telling the &#8220;truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR senior editor Uri Berliner resigns, citing CEO Katherine Maher&#8217;s &#8220;divisive views&#8221; as a contributing factor to the network&#8217;s issues. Berliner&#8217;s departure follows his suspension for criticizing NPR&#8217;s shift toward a liberal echo chamber. 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