Shortly before 11 am on Wednesday, NPR senior business editor Uri Berliner resigned at about the time his suspension without pay was going to end.
The most important part was where he took on woke new NPR CEO Katherine Maher: “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 pom-pom memo to NPR staff (posted publicly on NPR.org) claimed Berliner (who wasn’t named) was attacking NPR staff not for what they report, but “who they are.”
My resignation letter to NPR CEO @krmaher pic.twitter.com/0hafVbcZAK
— Uri Berliner (@uberliner) April 17, 2024
While many of us thought Berliner’s days were numbered when his essay was posted, it would be a test of NPR’s intolerance to see if Berliner could remain. He could not.
Earlier on Twitter/X, Berliner…
