NPR editor who alleged left-wing bias at network resigns
NPR editor who alleged left-wing bias at network resigns
Uri Berliner, a senior editor at NPR who penned an op-ed last week accusing the broadcaster of liberal bias, has resigned from the company. In social media post Wednesday, Berliner published his re…
He was an antivax conspiracy theorist who was convinced there was no Trump/Russia connection.
NPR definitely has shifted left over the years. Reading his release, he had me with the first part. Then he goes and jumps the rails to Madeupville, Crazytown.
Reality has a leftist bias. You think they have gone left only because a lot of very stupid and insecure people have shifted harshly to the right.
Do you have proof of this? I tried searching but I only get articles related to this incident.
I read the guys release before he quit. I don't have the link at the moment.
Interesting that he says:
Back in 2011, although NPR’s audience tilted a bit to the left, it still bore a resemblance to America at large. Twenty-six percent of listeners described themselves as conservative, 23 percent as middle of the road, and 37 percent as liberal.
By 2023, the picture was completely different: only 11 percent described themselves as very or somewhat conservative, 21 percent as middle of the road, and 67 percent of listeners said they were very or somewhat liberal. We weren’t just losing conservatives; we were also losing moderates and traditional liberals.
And then blames this on NPR. The GOP has been labeling NPR and other legitimate news sources as "fake news" and corrupt for years now. They are constantly pushing their constituents to only get their news from the right-wing bubble where they can control the message.
It's no wonder that conservatives aren't listening to NPR. But that is not NPR's fault nor should NPR change their reporting as a result. Their job is to report fair and unbiased news. If a group of the population doesn't want fair and unbaised news, they shouldn't start spewing bullshit just to appease these people.
They guy refers to liberals as a "very small segment of the US population". So at least he isn't shy about exposing his extreme bias, and in turn invalidating pretty much all of his own words.
If only he was right, or knew what liberal means
What’s the over/under on the timeline for transition to right-wing “I used to be a liberal” grifter? Do we count when he invites people people to subscribe to his new “actual freedom of speech no cancel culture here” Substack even if there’s no posts?
Juan Williams also went to Fox once NPR fired him. I expect this idiot to end up at Newsmax.
He was really just just Juan of the first of what later became many more.
The only complaint I have about NPR is that they went heavily with a pro-Israel posture after the October events. It took them months to catch up to reality and stop it.
Some of their recent coverage about Reddit was pretty insulting. When the IPO was going live they tried to explain the people who Reddit burned over the years who weren't buying into the IPO as "acting like children" needing to "grow up". It was the most one-sided coverage I have ever heard from them - even with all this left-leaning talk.
I actually recall reacting viscerally to that reporting.
I mean, if by "liberal bias" they mean "they want NPR to continue" I guess it's technically true, the same way that "Public Broadcasting should continue" also counts as "liberal bias"
I'm like 90% sure I remember Mr. Rogers testifying before Congress to keep PBS a thing, which was met with vitriol by right-wingers
You're mixing two events:
- Rogers went in front of the Senate and managed to convince an angry senator to support the creation of PBS. He was probably all of 25 years old when he did this and the senator went from hard and angry to soft and open-minded.
- Fox News at some point over Lockdown called him an evil man for suggesting that people deserve to be treated well.
No, the first part and the second part were definitely separate, because regarding the 2nd one chumbos like ol Benny "my wife is a doctor" went on a crusade defending Mr Rogers because Rogers mentions that boys and girls are different
I wonder if he is a crypto-magat.
He’s gonna stay plastered.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Uri Berliner, a senior editor at NPR who penned an op-ed last week accusing the broadcaster of liberal bias, has resigned from the company.
“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.”
In his essay, Berliner writes NPR had strayed too far left politically and was increasingly only presenting “the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population.”
The episode has provided fodder for Republicans and conservative critics of the network, who have long alleged bias against them at the public broadcaster.
Some conservative activists have highlighted social media posts from Katherine Maher, NPR’s CEO, before she took over at the company this year espousing progressive ideas.
In a statement to The Hill on Tuesday in regard to Berliner’s reported suspension, NPR said it “does not comment on individual personnel matters, including discipline.”
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Seems pretty left wing to me.
“Resigned”
It is inevitable for a state funded organization to become aligned with the party that is willing to give them more money.