NPR Suspends Editor Who Criticized its Progressive ‘Groupthink’ Direction

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Katherine Maher, NPR’s new CEO, responded by calling his critique “profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning.”

A National Public Radio (NPR) editor who criticized the news organization’s progressive ‘groupthink’ direction has been suspended without pay.

This past week, Uri Berliner, the senior business editor for NPR, wrote a piece for The Free Press in which he admitted that NPR has become radically progressive, with journalists as activists telling people what to think instead of letting the “evidence lead the way.”

According to David Folkenflik, an NPR media correspondent, the news organization is “grappling” with “the fallout” from Mr. Berliner’s statements, among them being that in its striving to become diverse, it lost its spirit of open-mindedness.

“It angered many of his colleagues, led NPR leaders to announce monthly internal reviews of the network’s coverage, and gave fresh ammunition to conservative and partisan Republican critics of NPR, including former President Donald Trump,” Mr. Folkenflik said.

Mr. Berliner cited NPR’s promotion of the Russia collusion conspiracy hoax against President Trump, its turning a blind eye to the Hunter Biden laptop report, its refusal to acknowledge the Wuhan lab leak theory as the likely source of COVID-19, and its emphasis on “bizarre” stories about alleged systematic racism.

NPR began to avoid language that it perceived as “racially problematic” and “alarmingly divisive,” he said, citing as an example a story about bird names being racist.

CEO’s Past Social Media Posts

Katherine Maher, NPR’s new CEO, responded by calling his critique “profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning.”

According to a report from the New York Post, Ms. Maher has a history of progressive, anti-Trump rants on X, one of which she deleted before landing her position at NPR.

However, a post where she stated that “Donald Trump is a racist” in 2018 was saved on Archive Today.

Other posts are still available, such as one in which she defends looting in 2020.

“I mean, sure, looting is counterproductive,” she wrote. “But it’s hard to be mad about protests not prioritizing the private property of a system of oppression founded on treating people’s ancestors as private property.”

She also stated in 2020 that for white people to be silent is to be complicit in racism.

By Matt McGregor

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