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.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2024/04/16/1244962042/npr-editor-uri-berliner-suspended-essay
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?
NoRethugFriends
(2,338 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,330 posts)he needs to go work at Fox.
Farmer-Rick
(10,212 posts)But it is very conservative. Not Fox crazy Stinking Nazi conservative, but much more conservative than MSNBC and TYT.
It never had a rigidly progressive mindset.....ever.
Berliner just wants to kill it from the inside. It's another GOP wet dream to totally ban and end public radio.
NBachers
(17,146 posts)maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)Whereas my beef is that it's too conservative. NPR = Now Promoting Republicans.
& F Rufo.
NBachers
(17,146 posts)Ive taken to calling them National rePublican Radio.
maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)They get to gaslight for 6 minutes at 20 past the hour on Morning Edition. I used to wake up to them at 6:15 then hit snooze, but no longer.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,474 posts)In what dimension? NPR has been drifting Right for decades.
J_William_Ryan
(1,757 posts)Reporting facts and the truth that expose the dishonesty and lies of Republicans and the failures and fallacies of conservative dogma isnt liberal.
blm
(113,100 posts)ificandream
(9,387 posts)Especially compared to Fox, which is a piece of crap.
Jirel
(2,025 posts)NPR is progressive? In what universe? It has devolved to news and stories calculated to reassure well educated, well-funded centrists that everything is ok.
Scruffy1
(3,257 posts)The mostly corporate sponsored radio always seems to me to be overly concerned with not rocking the boat. I quit listening to them
a long time ago so maybe they have changed. Having lived through the shit since Reagan I only could wish they have improved. If pulling your head out of your ass is and looking at reality is too progressive we are screwed. Makes me wonder why we ever fought a civil war. The media including NPR has been complicit and been playing the game to normalize fascism. Just in the last year or so we have seen the rights to a common medical procedure and the right of the Federal Government to enforce pollution of wetlands and rivers taken away. All of the media should be screaming. Come to think of it I still sometimes listen to Jazz88 even though I know live in El Paso.
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Redleg
(5,845 posts)Like Trump, I like to make up nicknames for people I don't like. Chris Rufo is "Rufus the Doofus."
Owl
(3,644 posts)mahina
(17,705 posts)Predictable ones
I made my arguments against this ridiculous article. do not have time to share them now here we should all know what he said about NPR because we need to defend it and I know well it is too far to the right.
https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust?r=4sd7t&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0BMQABHVN_cI2GlmYC4IJWOpsckjLbujB1UY6F8Oes2_q5qPurOIk3Jj6v4Yg8fg_aem_AchNlTiyH8i7lFhTFKSWQy-Nny5Ix4ygfokDsRe9ItuJ6X47XbKupA17SPxIvcOmfOg&triedRedirect=true
I am relieved to hear that the new boss lady called Trump racist.
pecosbob
(7,544 posts)It's their responsibility to be objective...RWers don't comprehend the difference.
Abolishinist
(1,314 posts)How embarrassing that 53% of Americans don't know that our three branches are the House, the Senate and executive.
Also, that WWII was fought to free Europe of Socialism.
Just ask Tommy Tuberville!
https://americanjournalnews.com/republican-elected-to-senate-doesnt-know-the-3-branches-of-government/