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NPR Needs Some ‘Soul-Searching’ About Serving All Americans

Ex-NPR senior editor Uri Berliner appeared again on Chris Cuomo’s NewsNation show on Tuesday night. “I think that really, NPR has a lot of soul searching to do about representing the country at large. Being a publicly funded news organization and really trying to represent this country in all its great diversity and viewpoints.”

It should seem obvious that NPR is impervious to “soul searching” since they didn’t want Berliner to work there any more after he raised his questions about viewpoint diversity.

Cuomo asked about morning host Steve Inskeep and then other people at NPR saying Berliner “cherry-picked” his stories and got it wrong. “Do you think in retrospect that you should have done anything different?”

Berliner said no, “not at all. You know, I think even in our news in NPR newsroom, since the story was published, they’ve decided to institute…

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