Uli Berliner is a Peabody Award-winning senior business editor who worked at NPR for 25 years. Last week, he bravely overcame the ire of his colleagues and explained why NPR has been around for so long.
Left-wing federal funding sinkholehas become “an openly controversial news organization serving a niche audience.”
In the wake of Berliner’s damning revelations, longtime critics of NPR, recognizing not only NPR’s untrustworthy nature but also the radicalism of new CEO Katherine Maher, increased scrutiny of the media organization.
South African billionaire Elon Musk was among those hurt by Maher’s racist comments and slurs, as former President Donald Trump and others renewed calls for NPR to be defunded. .
called Maher: “You crazy racist!”
Propaganda for “coastal elites carrying tote bags”
Berliner did his best
April 9 opinion piece for the free pressaccused NPR of thoughtlessly promoting Democratic propaganda and completely abandoning its journalistic independence.
Berliner, the son of an LGBT activist and a child of Holocaust victims, begins by describing NPR’s typical listener as “a coastal elite who drives EVs, plays Wordle, and carries tote bags.” – admitting that he resembles NPR, “has always had a liberal bent.”
He argued that despite historical biases, NPR once had an “open-minded, curious culture.” Since then, he has shed his skin and become a brazen spokesperson for Washington, D.C.’s liberal political establishment, the veteran editor suggested.
For example, Berliner said NPR was working diligently to “damage or overthrow the Trump presidency,” and that the “trick” was part of that effort.[ing] “We drove our wagon to Trump’s most visible opponent, Congressman Adam Schiff,” amplifying the Russian collusion hoax.
When the Russian collusion theory and the corresponding hoax that NPR helped spread were revealed to be false, Berliner said, the media more or less pretended it never happened and “didn’t commit any crime.” He went ahead with the story without remorse, which helped shatter his trust, he said. In ongoing media.
Not only did Mr. Berliner help bring a democratically elected president to his knees with blatant lies concocted by his political opponents, NPR also turned a blind eye to Democratic Party scandals, and if it was appropriate It was reported that the election could have changed the course of the 2020 election had it not been censored online. —Hunter Biden’s laptop story.
Berliner
highlighted In response to the New York Post’s explosive article about laptops, NPR’s then-news editor Terrence Samuel said, “We don’t want to waste time on articles that aren’t really articles, and so… They want to waste their listeners’ and readers’ time with stories that are purely distracting. ”
Again, when the facts finally revealed that NPR was wrong, the organization “didn’t make the hard choice of transparency.”
Berliner also accused NPR of lying about the origins of COVID-19, saying, “The lab leak was even declared false by scientists, when that was not the case.” .
Main catalyst
An NPR veteran says his company’s “independent journalism” began to plummet after former CEO John Lansing took over in 2019. Lansing reportedly saw the death of George Floyd as a cause to center race and identity in everything the company does. did.
“We can be agents of change when it comes to identifying and ending systemic racism,” Lansing was quoted as saying in a companywide article.
“It was proclaimed loud and clear that systemic racism is endemic in America. It was a given. Our mission was to change it,” Berliner wrote.
In addition to turning NPR into an identitarian activist organization, Lansing appears to have helped eliminate all remaining “diversity of viewpoints.”
Berliner’s article was not entirely hopeless. After diagnosing what was wrong with NPR, the business editor suggested to Katherine Maher:
announced Things may improve when he becomes president and CEO of the company in January.
Mr. Maher previously worked at the National Institute for Democracy, which is primarily funded by George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, and participated in the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders Program, where he: Served in
CEO of Wikipedia’s parent companyWikimedia.
“Her first rule may be very simple: don’t tell people how to think,” Berliner wrote.
From one radical CEO to another
Mr. Maher seemed to think that the rules proposed by Mr. Berliner were worth breaking, as he suggested in her.
Reactions to his article on April 11th It’s okay to criticize NPR. It’s just that it’s not the way she likes it.
“Asking questions about whether we are fulfilling our mission should always be fair game. Journalism, after all, is nothing if not hard questions,” Maher said in a response. wrote, completely avoiding calling out Berliners by name. “It is extremely disrespectful, hurtful, and humiliating to question whether our people are faithfully fulfilling their mission based on their perceived identity.”
Maher also implied that Berliner was wrong to suggest that NPR was fundamentally partisan and lacked diversity of viewpoints, arguing that “American diversity is reducible to a particular set of beliefs.” It is very simple to do so, and any inference to infer that identity is flawed. It determines a person’s ideology and political leanings. ”
It may be difficult to gauge the worldview accepted by Ms. Ma’s subordinates, old and new, but given the following posts she has made to X in recent years, where she stands on this issue is It’s not difficult to guess what’s going on.
- September 2020 — “Once again, let me be clear: I’m a white woman. I already have my legs up. … My race has always been an advantage.”
- May 2020 –“America is addicted to white supremacy, and that’s the real problem.”
- May 2020 — “I know that hysterical white woman’s voice. I was taught to do it. I did it. It’s an unsettling realization. I don’t recall ever using that voice to put anyone in immediate physical harm, but it’s not impossible.
- May 2020 “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.”
- March 2019 “When people turn their noses up at buses, it’s often also implicit racism by devaluing services that provide vital (and already under-resourced) connections to minority communities. ”
- March 2019 “Climate change, income inequality, disproportionate representation, structural racism, and lax regulation will only become more harmful in the years to come.”
Christopher Rufo, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, shared an old post by Maher with X Sunday in which she wrote, “There were a lot of jokes about leaving America, but… That’s understandable. But as a cis-white, mobile, privileged person, I think I’m going to stay in America and invest in eliminating the specter of this oppression. ”
Elon Musk retorted: “This guy is a crazy racist!”
Among the many people currently calling for NPR to be defunded is former President Donald Trump, who told Truth Social on Wednesday, “NPR doesn’t need any more funding, it’s a complete fraud.” ” he wrote.
report CNN.
President Trump stressed that NPR is a “liberal disinformation machine” and should not be given a single dollar of additional government funding.
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