Posted on 04/17/2024 8:12:52 AM PDT by billorites
Uri Berliner, the veteran NPR editor who accused the outlet of liberal bias earlier this month, announced his resignation on Wednesday.
NPR suspended Berliner after he criticized the public radio network in an op-ed and interview with The Free Press.
“I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years,” he wrote in his resignation, which he posted to X, formerly Twitter.
“I don’t support calls to defund NPR,” Berliner wrote. “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.”
I’m glad they allowed him to resign. We know he’s not going to CNN or PBS and won’t be summarily executed or harassed by the FBI or IRS.
“If this is such a valued institution it should have no problem being support by its listeners and not with our tax money.”
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And that is the key point! Like any business it should be self-sustaining if it provides customers with a useful service. There is no shortage of Leftist elites who can well afford to subsidize NPR if they want to hear a steady stream of Lefist propaganda. But don’t ask taxpayers to pay for an outlet whose audience is soley on one side of the political spectrum.
A conservative version of NPR would never be allowed to exist. Just imagine liberal heads exploding at the notion of taxpayer money funding it.
Yep, he’s still a brain addled lib!
I think the NPR management is concerned about their audience, some of whom contribute to the network. NPR can’t afford to broadcast ideas that, shall we say, trigger them. They are a triggerable bunch.
The leftist inquisition continues apace. Have you now or have you ever...?
I hope he sues them for his suspension.
Yesterday he was suspended for writing the critical article and today he’s out the door.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/npr-uri-berliner-editor-suspended-essay/
Local stations that pay NPR to carry programming seem less necessary when access is essential free on a phone but if listeners and corporate underwriters want to keep it on (maybe substituting NPR entertainment shows over news) that is their business.
The podcaster Turd Flinging Monkey calls it “the cathedral.”
*“I don’t support calls to defund NPR,” Berliner wrote.
Well then he’s still a dumbass who hasn’t learned a damned thing.*
You mean like Juan Williams.
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