National Public Radio's new CEO Katherine Maher appears to have purged her social media of hyper-partisan and left-leaning posts before taking the helm of the government-backed news network.
“Donald Trump is a racist,'' former CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, an online encyclopedia nonprofit, said. Posted on Twitter in 2018, According to a snapshot of tweets on the site Archive.Today.
It's unclear when or why Ma deleted the post from her account, or whether it was related to her new job at NPR, which promotes “fact-based reporting.” Opinions and commentary are secondary. ”
According to media bias rating agency AllBiasHowever, NPR, which surveyed approximately 24,000 news readers, found that there is a “media bias” that aligns with “liberal, progressive, or left-wing ideas and policy agendas.”
Maher, who is scheduled to take the helm of NPR on March 25, has made several bipartisan posts in the past.
She once justified rampant shoplifting in Los Angeles on the basis of the crime of slavery.
“Sure, looting is counterproductive. 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.” Maher wrote on Twitter in 2020:later rebranded as X.
Maher, 40, also told her more than 26,500 X followers the same year that “white silence is complicity.”
“If you are white, today is the day to start a conversation in your community.” she urged.
But she admitted that right before using “that hysterical white woman voice.”
“I was taught to do it. I did it. It's an unsettling realization. To my own knowledge, I have no recollection of using this to intentionally expose another person to immediate physical harm, but… It’s not impossible. That’s whiteness.” Posted by Maher.
In a thread about X, Ma said her “whiteness” was victimizing her and accused her fourth-grade history class of “misrepresenting some things.”
“I'm from New England and there were no slaves in my area, so that's what I was taught, so I grew up feeling superior (oh, how white I am),” Maher said. Added to thread.
she She continued to correct elementary school teachings.“Not only did New England have a short-lived legal system of slavery, but a significant portion of New England's economy, including on the coast of my home state of Connecticut, was based on plantation labor. Ta.”
Representatives for NPR did not immediately respond to The Post's request for comment.
After leaving her hometown of Wilton, Conn., Maher studied at the Institute of Arabic Language at American University in Cairo, Egypt, and then earned a bachelor's degree in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies from New York University, according to her LinkedIn account. .
Mr. Maher held positions in a variety of industries, including banking and communications at HSBC, UNICEF, and the World Bank, before becoming CEO of the San Francisco-based nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia. .
Mr. Maher will succeed John Lansing as NPR's CEO.
After four years at the helm, Lansing announces retirement.
