NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism
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Source: NPR
NPR has formally punished Uri Berliner, the senior editor who publicly argued a week ago that the network had "lost America's trust" by approaching news stories with a rigidly progressive mindset.
Berliner's five-day suspension without pay, which began last Friday, has not been previously reported.
Yet the public radio network is grappling in other ways with the fallout from Berliner's essay for the online news site The Free Press. 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.
Conservative activist Christopher Rufo is among those now targeting NPR's new chief executive, Katherine Maher, for messages she posted to social media years before joining the network. Among others, those posts include a 2020 tweet that called Trump racist and another that appeared to minimize rioting during social justice protests that year. Maher took the job at NPR last month — her first at a news organization.
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Berliner doesn't exactly have bad intentions wanting an NPR to reach out to a higher proportion of the population. But last I checked, it was called National Public Radio (as in public service), not National Populist Radio.
And think about that survey showing only 47% of Americans could name the three branches of government. Is a public media outlet any good that's an exact mirror image of a largely ignorant populace that insists on bias-confirming, comfort food news in the form of blogs or Twitter activists?
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