NPR Whistleblower Resigns, Stating He Cannot Work For an Organization Whose CEO "Disparages" Him

Disparages?

Or defames?

Might be a promise of a lawsuit to come.

Longtime NPR editor Uri Berliner, who was suspended after blowing the whistle on liberal bias at the organization, announced Wednesday he has resigned.

"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 cited in my Free Press essay," Berliner wrote in a statement published on X.

Berliner was referring to Katherine Maher, who took over last month as President and CEO and has gone viral for past social media posts showing far-left personal views.

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His piece angered colleagues, with some telling in-house media reporter David Folkenflik they didn't want to work with him any longer. Berliner was suspended for five days without pay and NPR told him it was a "final warning" and he would be shown the door if he violated NPR's policy about working with outside news organizations going forward. Instead, he walked away on his own terms.

Christopher Rufo and Matt Taibbi and many, many other people are going through Maher's twitter feed, finding one woke bon-bon after another.

Matt Taibbi picks out woke Tweets from Maher posted for various holidays.

I like how she refers to Latin America as "latam," like they're on a nickname basis. Like she's referring to Robert DeNiro as "Bobby" to let you know that they're tight.

Some of Maher's greatest hits are collected by Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.

Here's just a smattering:

This was called out by Sharon: NPR's new CEO says that a "reverence for truth" might block you from accomplishing your political objectives.

This is, of course, perfectly in line with NPR's current "journalistic" values.

Charles Murray @charlesmurray

This is more devastating than the silly tweets. It is a prepared & rehearsed repudiation of the journalist's historic responsibility and contradicts what NPR once claimed to be about.

That's a bit harsh, but I have been thinking about the AWFLs lately, and how so many of our moral panics -- the Temperance movement, for example, and including suddenly spikes in religious intensity -- are driven by women. Of course women also drove positive changes. I think they were prime movers in the abolitionist movement.

But women also attach themselves to flaky causes.

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