NPR CEO Katherine Maher came for a 15-minute interview at a Semafor summit in D.C. on “trust in media,” but it was a softball session. Instead of being pressed on NPR’s liberal tilt, Semafor reporter Maxwell Tani was incredibly vague: “What have you done in your first year to build or restore trust in NPR?” I was in the room, and suppressed the desire to yell about the answer (and the question).
Tani didn’t mention the name of longtime NPR editor Uri Berliner, or how he was effectively forced out for blowing the whistle on the leftist tilt. He didn’t mention that Berliner found 87 registered Democrats in the NPR newsroom, and zero Republicans.
Now Tani might think hey, this is a room full of media reporters and critics, I don’t need to be specific. He didn’t ask about how NPR has covered Trump or Biden or Kamala Harris in the last year, or how they…
