The headquarters for National Public Radio (NPR) in 2013. (Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
‘An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR, and now, predictably, we don’t have an audience that reflects America,’ says senior business editor.
Uri Berliner (Credit: NPR)
A veteran NPR editor admits the news organization has gone too far in its bias by turning its journalists into activists who tell its audience what to think.
Uri Berliner, the senior business editor for NPR, cites its promotion of the Russian collusion conspiracy theory to shed a negative light on former President Donald Trump, its turning a blind eye to the Hunter Biden laptop report, its refusal to acknowledge the Wuhan lab leak theory as the source of COVID, and its emphasis on “bizarre” stories about systematic racism as major issues that signaled to him there is a problem.
Mr. Berliner told The Free Press that the NPR of today, as opposed to the one he started working at 25 years ago, reflects “the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population.”
“An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR, and now, predictably, we don’t have an audience that reflects America,” he said. “That wouldn’t be a problem for an openly polemical news outlet serving a niche audience. But for NPR, which purports to consider all things, it’s devastating both for its journalism and its business model.”
The shift became more rapid with the election of former President Donald Trump, he said. (Read more: The Epoch Times, 4/10/2024) (Archive)