Berliner has worked at NPR for a quarter century and describes himself as a Sarah Lawrence College-educated child of a "Lesbian peace activist mother" whose Spotify "Listening habits are most similar to people in Berkeley." In other words, he's a solid liberal.
"It's true NPR has always had a liberal bent," he writes, "But during most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed." That culture no longer exists, he says, a transformation that started in earnest in 2016.
Incredibly, journalists were even "Required to ask everyone we interviewed their race, gender, and ethnicity, and had to enter it in a centralized tracking system." Berliner makes it clear that he went public with his complaints only after getting nowhere internally.
One top executive warned him "To be careful" how he talks about "Diversity of thought." Now, instead of praising Berliner for his honesty, for bringing transparency to NPR, and for applying the same standards to NPR that it insists everyone else follow, and rather than using his expose as an opportunity to make changes, Katherine Maher - NPR's new and now famously leftist CEO - screeched like the child who's been told no for the first time.
Like Berliner, some old-school journalists have publicly denounced the trend.
Late last year, for example, former New York Times editorial page editor James Bennett penned an article titled "When the New York Times Lost Its Way," which recounted how he was fired for publishing an op-ed by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton that the woke Times staff didn't like.
Two years ago, former USA Today deputy editorial page editor Dave Mastio was demoted for a tweet that said: "People who are pregnant are also women." "I compounded my sin against this new orthodoxy by calling the idea that men can get pregnant an 'opinion,'" he wrote in an essay for the New York Post after leaving the paper.
https://issuesinsights.com/2024/04/17/in-true-journalistic-fashion-npr-cant-take-what-it-dishes-out/
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