The melodrama playing out at the tax-vacuum that is National Public Radio is entertaining to behold, but it is also a deeply significant event in the media environment. The very fact that this story continues to evolve and play out beyond the usual 24-hour news cycle is proof that something seismic has taken place. What we are beginning to see is that the reactions and the realities exposed at NPR are proving the revelations made by (former) Executive Editor Uri Berliner are spot-on accurate.
It has since been announced that Berliner — after being handed a one-week professional suspension — has decided to resign from his post at the network. As I discussed on the Lie-Able sources podcast, this essentially became inevitable when the list of NPR figures commenting on the column did not address its content and instead opted to simply go with the patented “Well, how DARE he!”…
