We previously covered how Uri Berliner, a Longtime NPR Senior Business Editor,  Exposed How DEI and Trump Derangement Ruined The Organization and how he then was Suspended Without Pay, Threatened With Termination.

Now Berliner has resigned:

My resignation letter to NPR CEO @krmaher pic.twitter.com/0hafVbcZAK

— Uri Berliner (@uberliner) April 17, 2024

The NY Times interviewed Berliner about the decision:

In an interview, Mr. Berliner said his decision to resign from NPR coalesced early this week after an email exchange with Ms. Maher. He said in the interview that he could infer from one of her emails that a memo she had sent to employees last week about workplace integrity was referring to him even though he had not been mentioned by name. In the email, which was sent to Mr. Berliner on Monday, Ms. Maher said her memo “stands for itself in reflecting my perspective on our organization.”

“Everything completely changed for me on Monday afternoon,” Mr. Berliner said.

NPR reported on NPR’s controversy, quoting its new president Katherine Maher:

In a statement Monday about the messages she had posted, Maher praised the integrity of NPR’s journalists and underscored the independence of their reporting.

“In America everyone is entitled to free speech as a private citizen,” she said. “What matters is NPR’s work and my commitment as its CEO: public service, editorial independence, and the mission to serve all of the American public. NPR is independent, beholden to no party, and without commercial interests.”

The network noted that “the CEO is not involved in editorial decisions.”

Meanwhile, Chris Rufo has been mocking Maher relentlessly on X (Twitter) after digging up some of her old tweets demonstrating her bias:

She says folx. She says Latinx. She knows that ending a word with an ‘x’ shows real commitment. It’s a conversation starter. Malcolm X. Ibram X. Kendi. It’s her little way of showing solidarity, raising the fist. It’s the grammar of social justice and it’s beautiful. https://t.co/dsEOSk7HgO

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 17, 2024

Katherine Maher: Wikipedia is biased because it is “famously written by men,” privileges “European models of reference to the written word,” and excludes “women, non-binary, and non-gender-conforming individuals.”

She is WokeGPT.pic.twitter.com/XgUseoUb3U

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 17, 2024

I describe the essence of Katherine Maher’s tweets to @JesseBWatters: “It is the most vapid left-wing propaganda imaginable … It’s like Mad Libs for left-wing women.”pic.twitter.com/dxfuEQIBvw

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 17, 2024

EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Maher says the “the number one challenge” in her fight against disinformation is “the First Amendment in the United States,” which makes it “a little bit tricky” to censor “bad information” and “the influence peddlers” who spread it.

NPR’s censor-in-chief. pic.twitter.com/0vY6hIpbmO

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 17, 2024

This would all make NPR seem unserious. Which is correct.

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