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Veteran National Public Radio (NPR) editor Uri Berliner published an essay on Tuesday exposing the government-funded outlet’s alleged bias during former President Donald Trump’s presidency.
Berliner, who has been at NPR for 25 years, alleges in the essay published in The Free Press that the outlet was striving to take down Trump during his presidency by citing Russia-collusion allegations that were later debunked. He also asserts that all levels of the organization were aligned on the prioritization of race and identity, leading to a lack of “viewpoint diversity” and increase in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.
“Persistent rumors that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia over the election became the catnip that drove reporting,” he wrote. “At NPR, we hitched our wagon to Trump’s most visible antagonist, Representative Adam Schiff.”
“But what began as tough, straightforward coverage of a belligerent, truth-impaired president veered toward efforts to damage or topple Trump’s presidency,” Berliner admitted in the bombshell essay.
Berliner noted that “NPR has always had a liberal bent,” but admitted they have now gone so far left they no longer represent the majority of Americans, and have lost conservatives; moderates and even traditional liberals.
He said even though he voted against Trump twice, he still felt they should cover him fairly. Instead, NPR jump on board with Schiff’s Russia collusion hoax, and then when it was found to be false, they didn’t admit their mistake. Berliner wrote:
It is one thing to swing and miss on a major story. Unfortunately, it happens. You follow the wrong leads, you get misled by sources you trusted, you’re emotionally invested in a narrative, and bits of circumstantial evidence never add up. It’s bad to blow a big story.
What’s worse is to pretend it never happened, to move on with no mea culpas, no self-reflection. Especially when you expect high standards of transparency from public figures and institutions, but don’t practice those standards yourself. That’s what shatters trust and engenders cynicism about the media.
When the New York Post published the report on the Hunter Biden laptop in October 2020, just before the 2020 presidential election, NPR released a stunning statement on why they wouldn’t report on it.
“We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions,” NRP brazenly declared in their statement.
Why haven’t you seen any stories from NPR about the NY Post’s Hunter Biden story? Read more in this week’s newsletter https://t.co/CJesPgmGvo pic.twitter.com/jAi7PnpbZf
— NPR Public Editor (@NPRpubliceditor) October 22, 2020
Slamming his own network for their response, Berliner wrote, “With the election only weeks away, NPR turned a blind eye.”
He wrote:
But it wasn’t a pure distraction, or a product of Russian disinformation, as dozens of former and current intelligence officials suggested. The laptop did belong to Hunter Biden. Its contents revealed his connection to the corrupt world of multimillion-dollar influence peddling and its possible implications for his father.
The laptop was newsworthy. But the timeless journalistic instinct of following a hot story lead was being squelched. During a meeting with colleagues, I listened as one of NPR’s best and most fair-minded journalists said it was good we weren’t following the laptop story because it could help Trump.
Berliner wrote that when the NY Post’s coverage on Hunter’s laptop was prove to be true, “we could have fessed up to our misjudgment. But, like Russia collusion, we didn’t make the hard choice of transparency.”
He also slammed the NPR for their coverage on the Covid pandemic, and its origins:
The lab leak theory came in for rough treatment almost immediately, dismissed as racist or a right-wing conspiracy theory. Anthony Fauci and former NIH head Francis Collins, representing the public health establishment, were its most notable critics. And that was enough for NPR. We became fervent members of Team Natural Origin, even declaring that the lab leak had been debunked by scientists.
But that wasn’t the case.
Further into the essay, Berliner blasted the NRP for their coverage of the entire George Floyd case and the protests that followed, the claims of racism, the push for ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion,’ and the gender and transgender narratives.
He exposes it all… and wrote, “what’s notable is the extent to which people at every level of NPR have comfortably coalesced around the progressive worldview. And this, I believe, is the most damaging development at NPR: the absence of viewpoint diversity.”
CLICK HERE to read the entire, jaw-dropping essay.
WATCH the interview below:
How NPR Lost the Trust of America
In an exclusive interview, senior business editor at @NPR @UBerliner speaks to @bariweiss about NPR’s shift from a liberal-leaning news organization to its present “knee-jerk,” “activist,” and “scolding” liberal bias.
“It was Trump’s election…… pic.twitter.com/hx1eDeJi1K
— Honestly with Bari Weiss (@thehonestlypod) April 9, 2024
Uri Berliner has worked at NPR for 25 years.
He still works there.
And today he published this essay in @TheFP:https://t.co/1AfiuFrFnB
— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) April 9, 2024
Enemy of the people
‘It’s Devastating’: 25-Year NPR Veteran Cops To All The Biased Coverage Outlet Pushed During Trump Years https://t.co/gwkb6fnjEx via @dailycaller— Hutch (@HBRadioguy) April 9, 2024
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