NPR’s Leftist CEO’s Testimony Is Laughable, But The Joke’s On The Taxpayer
Katherine Maher told a congressional committee on Wednesday that NPR delivers 'nonpartisan, fact-based' reporting. Hilarious.Katherine Maher told a congressional committee on Wednesday that NPR delivers 'nonpartisan, fact-based' reporting. Hilarious.Is NPR’s woke CEO Katherine Maher WORSE than we thought?
NPR’s president and CEO, Katherine Maher, has made headlines after the publicly funded media company punished journalist Uri Berliner for exposing the network’s leftist bias.
Now, Maher’s also under fire for her past outrageous statements about free speech.
And while that’s all bad enough, Maher may be even more nefarious than conservatives are just now finding out.
“She would be a very important tool in the hands of the government, and she’s being paid by National Public Radio,” Glenn Beck says. “She is a tool of the government in many ways.”
Blaze News staff writer Joseph MacKinnon has some enlightening details.
“At first blush, she looks like just another shrill leftist. She has the obligatory photo wearing the Biden campaign hat, and she has an unhealthy obsession with race,” MacKinnon says. “But you keep digging, as Rufo has, and you realize really quickly that there’s something more going on here.”
“From 30,000 feet,” he continues, “she looks like not just a tech savvy media queen but someone who spent a lot of time around color revolutions.”
Not only is Maher also a World Economic Forum World Global Leader, but she’s worked with the World Bank, various NGOs in tech comms and foreign policy spaces, and the National Democratic Institute.
The National Democratic Institute is a spin-off of the National Endowment for Democracy, which according to MacKinnon is an “organization that tries to transition unwilling regimes to become liberal democracies.”
“Can I redefine that a little bit?” Glenn asks, adding, “It’s a CIA front.”
“Whether or not she has CIA on a card somewhere tucked into her desk, she might as well have been,” MacKinnon says.
NPR Will Never Face Its Intellectual Rot Until Taxpayer Funds Stop Flowing
Katherine Maher and her ilk don’t even see the problem of the ideological conformity their institutions have coercively created.Exclusive: All Things Considered, Lawmakers Say It’s Time To Defund NPR
Rep. Bob Good is introducing a bill that would prohibit federal funds in general from going to the radio network.NPR editor takes stand after calling out left-wing bias as GOP prepares to defund the network
Uri Berliner, the journalist who blew the whistle on NPR's left-wing bias, has resigned from NPR.
Last week, Berliner published an essay in the Free Press expressing concern that his employer, a corporate media outlet that receives taxpayer funding, has "lost America's trust" because it has embraced a "progressive worldview."
NPR leadership denied Berliner's perspective, despite the fact that he had worked there for 25 years and witnessed firsthand the liberal drift.
Then, last Friday, the company suspended Berliner without pay for five days. Leadership charged Berliner with violating a company policy that requires employees to receive prior approval before appearing in outside publications.
Berliner said in a statement on Wednesday that he did not resign because of his punishment. Rather, he decided to leave because of CEO Katherine Maher, who he felt criticized him in a memo to NPR staff last week.
Berliner announced:
I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years. I don’t support calls to defund NPR. I respect the integrity of my colleagues and wish for NPR to thrive and do important journalism. But I cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged by a new CEO whose divisive views confirm the very problems at NPR I cite in my Free Press essay.
Berliner told the New York Times he has no immediate plans other than to spend time with family and rest.
On the same day that Berliner tendered his resignation, dozens of NPR employees sent a letter to company brass demanding they publicly rebuke and correct the "factual inaccuracies and elisions" in Berliner's essay.
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The demands seemingly confirm many of Berliner's core critiques of NPR. As the old saying goes: If the shoe fits, wear it.
Meanwhile, Republicans are pushing to defund NPR of taxpayer funds. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), in fact, is preparing to introduce legislation doing just that.
"The mainstream media has become obsessed with doing the Left’s bidding and taking down strong conservatives — and NPR has led the pack," Blackburn said. "It makes no sense that the American people are forced to fund a propagandist left-wing outlet that refuses to represent the voices of half the country. NPR should not receive our tax dollars."
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NPR punishes editor after he exposed company's left-wing bias in viral essay: 'Lost America's trust'
NPR is punishing senior editor Uri Berliner for exposing the outlet's left-wing bias.
Last week, Berliner sent shockwaves through the media with an essay in the Free Press highlighting what he believes is NPR's liberal transformation. According to Berliner, NPR has "lost America's trust" because NPR has embraced a "progressive worldview."
The essay was especially powerful because Berliner has worked at NPR for 25 years, and thus he has witnessed first-hand the outlet's leftward drift.
As evidence to back his perspective, Berliner pointed to NPR's coverage of the alleged Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy, its handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story, its coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, NPR's internal focus on race and identity, and the lack of viewpoint diversity among NPR's staff.
NPR executives initially pushed back on Berliner's criticisms.
"I and my colleagues on the leadership team strongly disagree with Uri’s assessment of the quality of our journalism and the integrity of our newsroom processes," said chief content officer Edith Chapin. "We believe that inclusion-among our staff, with our sourcing, and in our overall coverage-is critical to telling the nuanced stories of this country and our world."
On Tuesday, NPR itself revealed that leadership had disciplined Berliner.
Despite his years of service with the company, Berliner was suspended without pay for five days beginning last Friday.
The violation? Berliner did not comply with company policy requiring staffers to receive prior approval before submitting work to outside publications. The formal rebuke said it was his "final warning" and threatened termination if he violates the policy again.
Important to this story is Berliner's contention that he tried to address his concerns about NPR's ideological problems with executives before writing about them publicly. Clearly, his concerns went unheard.
Still, Berliner loves the place where he works. That's why he's passionate about its integrity.
"I love NPR and feel it's a national trust," Berliner told NPR. "We have great journalists here. If they shed their opinions and did the great journalism they're capable of, this would be a much more interesting and fulfilling organization for our listeners."
In the wake of Berliner's essay, NPR announced monthly reviews of its coverage. What will come of those reviews, if anything, remains to be seen.
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