After stirring up a hornet’s nest at NPR about a leftist tilt, senior editor Uri Berliner resigned Wednesday, but that doesn’t mean NPR types can refute his argument on their seemingly inevitable insularity and intolerance. New CEO Katherine Maher insulted Berliner as attacking staffers for “who they are,” when he was criticizing them for engaging in identity politics first, not journalism.
Berliner announced “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 essay at the Free Press.” Maher’s tweets show she supports race-based reparations, rioting, and the Black Lives Matter movement. She believes “America is addicted to white supremacy.” She talks about “cis white mobility privilege” without smirking. She won’t have children because “the planet is literally burning.”
At NPR, these tweets are not…
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