BREAKING: NPR Whistleblower Uri Berliner Announces Resignation - 'I Cannot Work In A Newsroom Where I Am Disparaged'

On Wednesday, NPR editor Uri Berliner, who sounded the alarm about NPR's blatant left-wing bias in a stunning op-ed in the Free Press last week, announced that he would be resigning from the outlet after 25 years. Berliner spent years internally attempting to point out the disparity in coverage between liberal and conservative causes; however, executives routinely shut him down. He decided to resign after being suspended for five days without pay for publishing the opinion piece without permission.

"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," Berliner said in a statement. "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."

The senior editor's essay focused on a growing pattern at NPR that revolved around championing progressive causes like pushing the Russia collusion conspiracy theory, refusing to even consider the Covid-19 lab leak theory, not covering the Hunter Biden laptop story in October 2020, and embracing systemic racism during the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020. In response to the essay, the publicly-funded outlet's editor-in-chief Edith Chapin sent a memo to staff disagreeing with Berliner's criticism, writing, "We’re proud to stand behind the exceptional work that our desks and shows do to cover a wide range of challenging stories. We believe that inclusion — among our staff, with our sourcing, and in our overall coverage — is critical to telling the nuanced stories of this country and our world."

Berliner's resignation comes after conservative commentator Christopher Rufo made light of the profoundly left-wing views of NPR's new CEO, Katherine Maher. "NPR has hired a left-wing activist who openly endorses censoring, deplatforming, and punching political opponents. She considers the First Amendment the 'number one challenge' to controlling 'bad information,'" Rufo explained. "The American people should not be paying for this. She must resign." Rufo's investigation of Maher revealed stunning instances of radical progressivism including a clip where she explains that the First Amendment is the number one challenge in the United States to fighting disinformation.

National Public Radio was established by Congress in 1971 and it receives public funding from taxpayers.

Read Berliner's Free Press essay here.

 

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