Conservative Twitter having a bill with woke new NPR CEO Katherine Maher’s tweets drew a New York Times story (which isn’t in the paper). The headline was gentle, about criticism over “Tweets Supporting Progressive Causes.“
Benjamin Mullin noticed one showed Maher wearing a “hat with the logo for the Biden presidential campaign.” (He left out the Covid mask). He also noticed this colorful tweet:
“Had a dream where Kamala and I were on a road trip in an unspecified location, sampling and comparing nuts and baklava from roadside stands. Woke up very hungry.”
NPR spokeswoman Isabel Lara rebutted Maher “was not working in journalism at the time and was exercising her First Amendment right to express herself like any other American citizen.” Now she is “fully committed to NPR’s code of ethics and the independence of NPR’s newsroom.” Maher repeated that line:…
