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https://www.npr.org/2024/04/16/1244962042/npr-edit...

"NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism"

"NPR has formally punished Uri Berliner, the senior editor who publicly argued a week ago that the network had "lost America's trust" by approaching news stories with a rigidly progressive mindset.

Berliner's five-day suspension without pay, which began last Friday, has not been previously reported."



You Liberals - you personally dont like "Putin!" - but you are little different.

Berliner's five-day suspension without pay, which began last Friday, has not been previously reported."

He was suspended 5 days because 1) he didn’t bother bringing the complaint to the network first, and 2) his contract says he must get permission before publishing elsewhere. He did neither.

For the record,

He complained about NPR coverage of Covid 19, Russian interference in the 2016 election, and coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop. For the record, NPR said Covid 19 probably started in Wuhan, China, there is significant evidence that Russia did, in fact, try to interfere with the 2016 election, and NPR covered the laptop story as did most other outlets, although it had no first hand knowledge it could verify, and said so.

The NPR reporter seems to have swallowed the crazies’ theories whole, and it is going to be hard for him to recoup. That’s because newsrooms run on trust, and as others in that newsroom have said, “I’m not going to work with him and find out later he’s shitting all over me in some nutter rag.”

He did this to himself, but of course as with all things right, it’s not his fault, it’s everyone else.

LOL @ the NPR HR rep in this thread. Wonder if his name is Bob?

The CEO of NOR’s tweets are something. She HAS to have posted on the Fool at some point. Wow! 100% Do Not Pass Go, head directly to Robin DiAnegelo CRT jail.

Reading that stuff, it explains a lot about NPR.

WitonKnight: "NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism" ... You Liberals - you personally dont like "Putin!" - but you are little different.

Yeah, we are different; we believe in facts, and the fact is this: Berliner lied.

For example, Berliner wrote about NPR's reporting on "Russiagate," claiming NPR interviewed representative Adam Schiff 25 times and that Schiff alluded "to purported evidence of collusion" during many of those conversations.

Schiff discussed "evidence" of "collusion" once on NPR, referring to "public evidence": We have seen ample evidence of collusion very much in the public eye. Whether that evidence amounts to proof beyond reasonable doubt of a criminal conspiracy I've always said will be up to Bob Mueller. He may have determined that it doesn't need proof beyond reasonable doubt in terms of a crime. But nonetheless the evidence of that collusion, the evidence of the relationship between the Trump campaign and the president and Russia needs to be exposed.

So, no, not "many" times in many conversations.

Berliner also claimed that "when the Mueller report found no credible evidence of collusion, NPR’s coverage was notably sparse and that "Russiagate quietly faded from our programming."

Also not true. NPR explicitly reported that the "Mueller Report Doesn't Find Russian Collusion, But Can't 'Exonerate' On Obstruction and "Mueller Report Finds No Evidence Of Russian Collusion" with detailed analyses.

Berliner claimed that "NPR turned a blind eye" and "didn't make the hard choice of transparency" when it came to reporting on a story on the Hunter Biden laptop that appeared in the N.Y. Post.

Sorry, also not true.

On October 17, 2020, NPR reported on the N.Y. Post story: "Analysis: Questionable 'N.Y. Post' Scoop Driven By Ex-Hannity Producer And Giuliani"

NPR has also addressed complaints that its reporting increasingly has had more democratic voices than republicans, noting that republicans increasingly had been ducking interviews with NPR; republicans simply have repeatedly declined to appear on air.

But hey, what's the grievance party without grievances?

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/22/706082875/house-int...

Berliner's rant was pointing out something that most centrists/independents have perceived for years - that NPR's bias has pegged the left side of the dial for years and is pervasive throughout the reporting.

The anti-Fox angry, outraged headline quoted above points out their non-coverage of the *actual* Biden laptop issue - proves Berliner's point. The story was buried.

Their incoming CEO is... not credible.

NPR is consistently rated slightly left in media bias ratings.

FOX skews much further on the right side.

The right hates NPR, but then the right hates facts.

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