NPR’s new CEO’s woke anti-Trump tweets are coming back to haunt her after she struggled to rebut a bombshell about journalistic bias submitted by a veteran editor this week.
Award-winning NPR Business Editor Uli Berliner Long essay published in “Free Press” “It was extremely disrespectful, hurtful and humiliating,” network president Katherine Maher, 42, said in a statement on the radio show. letter to staff.
“Our people represent the United States of America, an irreducibly complex nation,” Maher wrote in his response Friday, without mentioning the Berliner’s evidence of the media’s persistent left-wing leanings. I wrote it in
“We thrive on diversity.”
But after Maher was announced as NPR’s new leader in January, the Post reported that her overtly biased Twitter posts, such as one she wrote in 2018, “Donald Trump is a racist,” He also revealed a tendency to parrot progressive lines on social media.
The bipartisan message was removed from the platform now known as X, but was saved on a site called Archive.Today.
It’s unclear when Maher deleted it or if the deletion was related to her new job.
Other woke posts remain on Maher’s X account.
In 2020, as the George Floyd riots escalated, she sought to justify rampant looting in Los Angeles as retribution for the crime of slavery.
“Yes, looting is counterproductive,” Maher said. Written on May 31, 2020.
“But it’s hard to be angry at protests that don’t prioritize the private property of a system of oppression based on treating people’s ancestors as private property.”
The next day, she lectured her 27,000 followers about “white silence.”
“White silence is complicity.” she scolded.
“If you are white, today is the day to start a conversation in your community.”
The NPR job is Maher’s first position in journalism or media.
She previously held communications roles at HSBC, UNICEF, and the World Bank, before serving as CEO of the San Francisco-based nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia.
Maher earned a bachelor’s degree in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies from New York University. According to her LinkedIn account, and grew up in Wilton, Connecticut. Her mother, Ceci Maher, visited the town. represent the present As a Democratic state senator.
On Tuesday, Berliner caused a stir with an essay criticizing left-wing broadcasters for ignoring Hunter Biden’s laptop scandal in 2020 for fear it could lead to Donald Trump’s re-election, calling NPR “publicly controversial news.” It’s an outlet that serves a niche audience who criticized their bosses for making them “. ”
He also tasked his longtime employer with reporting on the Russian collusion case, in which the truth has since come out, and said that NPR “hitched our wagon to Trump’s most visible adversary” in House Adam Schiff. Representative (Democrat, California) said.
Mr. Berliner conducted investigative reporting about his workplace to understand why the coverage was chosen, he wrote.
“In Washington, D.C., where NPR is headquartered and where many of us live, there were 87 registered Democrats in editorial positions and zero Republicans,” he reported.
“none.”
Mr. Maher’s letter Friday did not mention this finding or debunk Mr. Berliner’s claims of bias.
NPR did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
