Well, this didn't take long. I showed you this on Friday.
Fast-forward to Wednesday, and…
Elon's right: Speak out, and you'll receive your punishment.
Here's a little of what Uri Berliner wrote in his op-ed last week concerning NPR's liberal bias which led to this suspension:
Back in 2011, although NPR's audience tilted a bit to the left, it still bore a resemblance to America at large. Twenty-six percent of listeners described themselves as conservative, 23 percent as middle of the road, and 37 percent as liberal.
By 2023, the picture was completely different: only 11 percent described themselves as very or somewhat conservative, 21 percent as middle of the road, and 67 percent of listeners said they were very or somewhat liberal. We weren't just losing conservatives; we were also losing moderates and traditional liberals …
Concerned by the lack of viewpoint diversity, I looked at voter registration for our newsroom. In D.C., where NPR is headquartered and many of us live, I found 87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans. None.
So on May 3, 2021, I presented the findings at an all-hands editorial staff meeting. When I suggested we had a diversity problem with a score of 87 Democrats and zero Republicans, the response wasn't hostile. It was worse. It was met with profound indifference.
He went off on some other stuff including Russiagate, the Hunter Biden laptop story, and the Covid-19 lab leak theory, and how NPR had gotten the stories wrong and never corrected themselves even after the truth came out.
And for that, Mr. Berliner got a nice little five-day suspension without pay. This caused Berliner to think his job over, and he ended up resigning as a result (probably what NPR was hoping for).
Uri Berliner, a National Public Radio senior editor who wrote a scathing online essay accusing the public radio network of harboring a liberal bias, said Wednesday he had resigned from the outlet.
Berliner posted his resignation statement on X:
I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years. I don't support calls to defund NPR. I respect the integrity of my colleagues and wish for NPR to thrive and do important journalism. But 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 Free Press essay.
You can learn more about that wildly progressive CEO here:
So Uri Berliner will end up writing for a real news network, NPR will continue its shift to the left, and we'll all keep paying taxes so that NPR can continue to tell us how bad conservatives are.
Cool.
Good for Uri Berliner, though, for getting the heck out of NPR. I'm sure he'll have plenty of job opportunities waiting for him.
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