Former President Donald Trump said “no more” taxpayer dollars should go to NPR after senior editors exposed several examples of blatant network bias.
NPR employs 87 registered Democrats in editorial positions, but zero Republicans in the same positions at its headquarters in Washington, D.C., NPR senior editor Uli Berlina reported in a scathing essay Tuesday. did.
Mr. Berliner, a leftist, said many of the leftist and possibly false narratives NPR has developed about the “lab leak theory” of the coronavirus, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), and the “Don’t Say I’m Gay” bill He said he was against it. Hunter Biden’s laptop, former President Donald Trump, and the 2016 Russia hoax.
“NPR has no more money, it’s a complete scam! The editor said they have no Republicans and are only being used to ‘damage Trump.'” Trump I have written Wednesday Truth Society. “They are liberal information machines. They don’t have a single dollar!!!”
taxpayer funds Subsidy available NPR’s budget has decreased by nearly 11%.
NPR’s business model appears to be in decline. The taxpayer-funded organization said in 2023 that the left-wing media company had laid off 10 percent of its employees, going from about 1,200 to about 1,050 employees. Announced.
NPR is in a panic https://t.co/iSVVaS5AQz
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) April 11, 2024
Berliner said the network’s “audience shifted a little to the left” in 2011, but “still resembles America as a whole.” He said NPR’s audience is 26% conservative, 23% “centrist” and 37% far left. By 2023, the situation had changed, with 11% calling themselves conservative, 21% calling themselves “centrists,” and 67% calling themselves leftists.
Berliner report:
Therefore, on May 3, 2021, I presented the results of the survey at a meeting of the entire editorial department. When I suggested there was a diversity problem with 87 Democrats and 0 Republicans, the reaction was not hostile. It was even worse. It was met with deep indifference. I received several messages from surprised and curious colleagues. But the message was of the “Wow, that’s weird” kind of way, as if the skewed tally was a random anomaly rather than a major failure in our diversity north star.
In a subsequent email exchange, an NPR News executive told me that he had been “skewered” for bringing up diversity of thought. When she arrived at NPR. Therefore, she said, “I want to be careful how I discuss this matter in public.”
Over the years, I have persevered. When it seemed like our reporting was off track, we wrote regular emails to top news leaders and sometimes held one-on-one sessions. On March 10, 2022, I spoke to a top news organization about how I repeatedly described Florida’s controversial education bill as a “don’t say gay” bill, even though it didn’t even use that word. I wrote a letter about it. gay. I wrote another time to try to set this straight and ask why we continue to use this word, which many Hispanics hate.Latin. On March 31, 2022, I was invited to a managers’ meeting to present my findings.
Edith Chapin, NPR’s chief news officer, denied the employees’ claims, citing nuance and comprehensiveness.
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