An NPR editor's critique of the newsroom's bias sparked controversy, with NPR leadership strongly disagreeing. The editor highlighted left-leaning shifts post-Trump, raising concerns about inclusivity data tracking. Critics call for defunding NPR due to alleged political bias and lack of viewpoint diversity.
NPR Defends Work in Response to Criticism Over Pendulum Swinging Too Far Left https://t.co/niDn79nHXG
Uri Berliner’s viral essay about his observations as a longtime NPR producer and editor warned against defunding the organization. https://t.co/1VZYomuzyC
Vivek goes after NPR: "NPR is quite literally state-funded media. At some point in the last decade, they started acting like it." https://t.co/5GwYmBmF0E
NPR Editor’s Critical Op-Ed Ignites Debate Over Political Bias in Journalism: ‘This Essay Has It Backwards’ https://t.co/dxQLTpjwY3
NPR is quite literally state-funded media. At some point in the last decade, they started acting like it. https://t.co/qdA1D3FLek
Former President Trump took a shot at NPR after one of its editors openly blasted the public broadcaster, accusing it of bias. https://t.co/7cSsFk471Y
Imagine being a 25-year employee of @NPR and noting in a meeting that the staff had no diversity of thought, there were 87 Democrats and 0 Republicans, and being told by leadership, “I want to be careful how we discuss this publicly.” https://t.co/PJMpcrsmkN
NPR’s idea of a “balanced” newsroom is having a blend of radical Marxists, neo-Marxists, and hard-left Socialists. https://t.co/4HP93e4af2
Trump demands 'no more funding' after NPR scandal: 'Not one dollar!' https://t.co/MxEnuHjMjc
NPR Chief Responds To Senior Editor's Op-Ed Arguing Outlet Has Lost Public Support https://t.co/kS56sFEgjU
NPR scandal: Whistleblower scolding outlet’s liberal slant puts spotlight on organization's federal funding https://t.co/nejdpSVauX
Let’s Not Pretend The Woke Newsroom Breakdown Was Only At NPR https://t.co/55GzbkloeP
NPR editor knocks outlet's 'troubling' avoidance of growing antisemitism following Oct. 7 https://t.co/aUBWyRWZsJ
🇺🇸TRUMP CALLS NPR “A TOTAL SCAM!” Pledging to withdraw public funding from the broadcaster, he claimed that the editor of NPR admitted they used their position to “damage Trump” and that they don’t employ Republicans. Source: Truth Social https://t.co/ZbqPzWQDPo
🇺🇸TRUMP CALLS NPR “A TOTAL SCAM” Pledging to withdraw public funding from the broadcaster, he claimed that the editor of NPR admitted they used their position to “damage Trump” and that they don’t employ Republicans. Source: Truth Social https://t.co/6l88c1pebm
25-year NPR employee: “An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR." NPR: What do you mean? We have one of the most diverse newsrooms in America. NPR’s D.C. newsroom: 87 registered Dems, 0 Republicans. https://t.co/zCpcfTVj0w
I don't listen to NPR. Not my thing. What I see is mainly over-compensating bothsides stuff. But I just happen to chance on Berliner's copy. But this Uri Berliner dude probably should have read the Mueller Report before making it a stock piece of his cri de spaz.
Trump Calls for Defunding NPR After Senior Editor’s ‘Viewpoint Diversity’ Essay https://t.co/7vQWq2sThw
Donald Trump demands NPR lose funding https://t.co/uL43IhXQhp https://t.co/LWAPxmtDVw
I agree with Trump: #DefundNPR https://t.co/kRn22Y3jFy
At core, the same thing that happened at NPR and Vice and most of other liberal institutions -- activists threatened, maligned, and drove out everyone who wasn't on board with their agenda. Direct donor gifts pegged to specific agendas also played a role. https://t.co/yV2YSbuZfu
A former reporter and editor for NPR said that the network abandoned their journalistic standards with the Hunter Biden laptop story because fair coverage could have aided then-President Donald Trump's reelection bid. https://t.co/Jm81oybjKy https://t.co/4T8RXdtp36
National Public Radio's long-standing liberal tilt has gone off the rails, a veteran insider claimed in an essay that has raised new questions about political bias at the taxpayer-funded radio and television network. https://t.co/u6Rk96YWtG
"Our money should not be used to push single-stance narrative and unchallenged propaganda and liberal talking points." @CarlHigbie torched NPR for their non-objective perspectives. https://t.co/b7zBjAfr8W
NPR under new scrutiny after longtime employee reveals its left-wing activist mission https://t.co/k4n1tpiQj1
'NO MORE FUNDING': Trump Rages Against NPR After Top Editor Accuses Employer of Bias https://t.co/JOBPIVS0qU
After Being Completely Exposed by Its Own Editor, NPR Responds in the Worst Possible Fashion – RedState https://t.co/jn50iFxebM
NPR relied on 'ever-present muse' Adam Schiff during Russiagate to 'damage' Trump, editor says https://t.co/xiK44pok4c
Key context: As president, Trump's proposed budget defunded NPR every year, and every year, lawmakers in both parties ignored him and kept the funding intact https://t.co/6mSF1HrrBO
One funny thing about that NPR article yesterday is that one gets the feeling that people in left-wing bubbles honestly didn't realize how utterly awful NPR's reputation had become in the last 10 years. Like, I think they really didn't know, somehow?
JUST IN: Trump writes, “No more funding for @NPR, a total scam! Editor said they have no Republicans, and is only used to "damage Trump." They are a liberal disinformation machine. Not one dollar!!!” https://t.co/kltOq21Nh0
Finally catching up with @uberliner's courageous reflection on NPR's fade from an "all things considered" approach to the world.... (on laptops, lab leaks and so much more...) ~~ Back in 2011, although NPR’s audience tilted a bit to the left, it still bore a resemblance to… https://t.co/6NSvmkDyFo
NO MORE FUNDING FOR NPR, A TOTAL SCAM! EDITOR SAID THEY HAVE NO REPUBLICANS, AND IS ONLY USED TO “DAMAGE TRUMP.” THEY ARE A LIBERAL DISINFORMATION MACHINE. NOT ONE DOLLAR!!! Donald Trump Truth Social 03:48 PM EST 04/10/24
NPR whistleblower Uri Berliner claims colleagues ‘confidentially’ agree with him about broadcaster’s hard-left bias https://t.co/uOu2khcH0M https://t.co/Ixpih848uH
After Being Completely Exposed By Its Own Editor, NPR Responds in the Worst Possible Fashion https://t.co/NtBAG032Nj
All Things Considered, It's Long Past Time to Defund NPR @elonmusk was right a year ago. Mitch McConnell was right 14 years ago. https://t.co/qXmOi8V8TC
CENSORSHIP: NPR Tracks Race, Sex Of Sources And Lets Trans Activists Police Its Language. Senior Business Editor Uri Berliner, a 25-year veteran of NPR, outlined Tuesday how the outlet ‘lost America’s trust.’ https://t.co/uXltPvmfzw
National Public Radio began as a scrappy institution featuring the voices of average Americans. Today it’s a sterile, inoffensive corporate product that is produced, funded, and consumed by a narrow demographic of highly educated liberals. https://t.co/ETgY2svu1h
NPR responds to the Free Press piece. One journalist literally begins his statement by saying "As a person of color..." completely discrediting himself and proving the author's point. https://t.co/Pvfwewh7d9
Employee: NPR Tracks Race, Sex Of Sources And Lets Trans Activists Police Its Language https://t.co/BeLnhBbpWY
“An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR, and now, predictably, we don’t have an audience that reflects America.” https://t.co/rwfRQJeWkp
An extraordinary piece by a journalist at NPR, @uberliner. He chronicles the ideological takeover, and shares that they don't have a single Republican in leadership. Journalism should be about the search for truth, not partisan winning. https://t.co/ADeLnqe2Xx https://t.co/42qFkOQKFf
Many things wrong w/terrible Berliner column on NPR, including not observing basic fairness. Didn't seek comment from NPR before publishing. Didn't mention many things which could detract from his conclusions. Set up staffers of color as scapegoats: https://t.co/6StjuUwpnh
NPR is in panic mode https://t.co/L9Qs3Etcri
NPR Senior Editor Blasts Lack of ‘Viewpoint Diversity’ After Leftward Lurch: ‘Open-Minded Spirit No Longer Exists’ https://t.co/Y1Y6iASXed
I used to listen to NPR very regularly. Yes it was "liberal" but I thought it was a good way to keep the pulse of professional, mainstream journalism. But during the Trump years they became un-listenable. @uberliner 's essay gives the internal scoop: https://t.co/5bB5ze5zz1
NPR reporter Uri Berliner wrote in The Free Press that the network has lost its audience by growing too liberal. He undermines his case by focusing on the Trump-Russia scandal, which he falsely claims Robert Mueller found ‘no collusion.’ https://t.co/dpuddcPV4L
NPR Fires Back at Staffer’s Missive About Left-Wing ‘Miscues’ https://t.co/mDCqiPqOCT via @thedailybeast
This is what passes for journalism at NPR. It’s been in the toilet for years. https://t.co/sgUIyquZ8H
I've been thinking about "viewpoint diversity" in media and academia for a while, most recently because of yesterday's NPR story. The problem isn't an absence of viewpoint diversity, but the presence of viewpoint stratification or viewpoint siloing within elite institutions. 🧵
NPR Editor Blasts the Public-Funded Company for Political Bias and Activism https://t.co/qLCcpnfkqM
NPR Whistleblower Defends Damning Column on Outlet's Liberal Bias to Chris Cuomo: 'People Are Just Sick of It' https://t.co/bJXReJC1QC
NPR goes FULL SPIN mode after editor blows the whistle on Democrat-packed propaganda organization https://t.co/zbvwEtKb5M
I am perplexed by the author's assertion that NPR shouldn't have its funding reduced after writing such a comprehensive account of how it turned against the Americans that fund it. Obviously we should defund NPR, otherwise we're endorsing this madness. https://t.co/4R086pRyMj
NPR's 'obsession' with DEI, diversity 'tracking system' scrutinized following veteran editor's bombshell essay https://t.co/VBWttJ8z2G
NPR Senior Editor Says Outlet Has Lost Public Trust https://t.co/dFwpaBOirT
NPR Editor Uri Berliner gives an account that is strikingly familiar for many of us who have raised the purging of conservative or libertarian voices from our faculties in higher education. None of this is likely to change the culture at NPR... https://t.co/OX1R17vwDM
When I listen to NPR, it's through gritted teeth. I knew why even before this "thought crime" committed by an award-winning reporter, but it's nice to have the details. https://t.co/mkKYnolY1z
A senior editor at National Public Radio (NPR) says the outlet's response to the election of then-President Donald Trump and the death of... Read more: https://t.co/ZVrCGlMbEU ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️
How NPR went ‘Off the Rails’ to knee-jerk liberalism–according to a current top editor https://t.co/dBX9R5wbkk
NPR editor found registered Democrats outnumbered Republicans 87 to zero in newsroom https://t.co/LUe3bPXOAY #FoxNews
Juan Williams responds to editor's charges of NPR bias: 'Insulated cadre of people who think they're right' https://t.co/vRqD4Vgb7J
This piece from @uberliner was great. Rare introspection on how the legacy media lost their way. I thought it was particularly compelling that he checked the voter registration of NPR reporters and found they were all Democrats. I do disagree with his conclusion that defunding… https://t.co/3sIwV2oNKw
This essay has it backwards: you can't blame NPR for conservatives not listening. You have to ask why conservatives have gone down conspiracy holes (climate change, 2020 election, vaccines) & how on earth mainstream media is supposed to cater to them now? https://t.co/OU1p8QyK8H
National Public Radio Insider Explains How the Organization Went Full-Activist After Trump’s 2016 Election (VIDEO) via @gatewaypundit https://t.co/UPjnGJAdjB
NPR is not a government-funded organization: 89% of funding comes from corporations, foundations, and individuals. Nor is it a progressive/left outlet: the "experts" it quotes tend to be centrist or reactionary. They're no more liberal at this point than The NY Times.
NPR is not a government-funded organization: 89% of funding comes from corporations, foundations, and individuals. Nor is it a progressive/left outlet: the "experts" it quotes tend to be centrist or reactionary). They've tilted increasingly right since the aughts.
This column is worth reading. I listened to NPR for their news almost every day for 40 years. They became so left wing I stopped listening. Too bad, because the local NPR reporters do a great job. https://t.co/vAr4xYqqdQ
SHIFTING THE NARRATIVE: Vivek Ramaswamy breaks down the takeaway from an NPR editor's stunning rebuke of the outlet's coverage: "Certain points of view, representing over 50 percent of the population in this country, just aren't welcome." Details: https://t.co/DF8SjSl8PR https://t.co/fWNHcdBzcC
This is an absolutely devastating take down of @NPR by an insider. Sadly, it resonates deeply with my own experience listening to NPR. A once great news organization has lost its bearings and its objectivity. https://t.co/qgGHLx4TnI
The core premise of Uri Berliner’s NPR piece in @TheFP is that NPR lost centrist and conservative listeners because it changed its journalism and went woke. What it doesn’t examine is the change that happened among conservatives in the same time frame. https://t.co/6mklvatwcM https://t.co/ccpEQwACgh
NPR, a taxpayer-funded news organization, used to be trusted but now, they’ve gone rogue. One senior editor, a classic liberal, says NPR corrupted itself in 2016. He admits NPR coped with Hillary’s loss by getting into bed with Adam Schiff. He says NPR pretended like the… https://t.co/rbABVcZ4EW
As a long time @NPR listener, I have realized the quality of reporting & commentary was going off the rails. This brave piece by @uberliner, a long-standing NPR editor, provides great insight into the nature of the problem. @TheFP https://t.co/vCoqAziiHS
An NPR veteran discusses how the network abandoned fairness and began shaping coverage to fit a particular world view. A similar piece could be written about The NY Times or other mainstream outlets. https://t.co/TB6uMXzXJk
A veteran National Public Radio journalist has hit out at the left-leaning broadcaster, claiming it ignored the Hunter Biden laptop scandal because it could have helped Donald Trump get re-elected. https://t.co/fFSUGaa1di
NPR Veteran Says They Lost Their Way After Trump’s Election https://t.co/ouSJajyxyV
There are lots of reasons why NPR shouldn’t receive any government $—here’s one: https://t.co/Z9Bul4YwTT
OMG. NPR has never NOT been a bastion of Leftist lies. At least not in my lifetime. (Headline below in this Tweet; link to the article in the below Tweet.) This buffoon thinks he is being impartial, but he still felt compelled to lie and say: "But what began as tough,… https://t.co/dDfMyCmzqV
The size of NPR's terrestrial listenership spiked during the 2016 election season and Trump's first year in office, but has slid since then, as its programming has become more focused on issues of race and gender. In 2022, the size of its audience reached a 20-year low. https://t.co/UIdpaGZzs1
Sadly, @NPR was far from alone among the media in abandoning any journalistic standards on the Covid origins issue https://t.co/8CnkGI1KP7
National Public Radio, the American broadcaster partially funded by taxpayers, has been accused by one of its top journalists of being dismissive of conservative views and serving only left-wing listeners ⬇️ https://t.co/BEvaxJP5Za
With the Republican Party expelling any remaining moderates and working as hard as possible to overturn American democracy, a former NPR editor hand-wrings about the supposed loss of both-sides political journalism. OK dude. https://t.co/cv1GRIw2Yk
Silly piece by a former NPR editor. https://t.co/qLcGb2ZUhY
NPR Editor Responds to Public Criticism From Veteran Journo in Internal Memo to Staff: 'Strongly Disagree' https://t.co/Rc56qrw7o6
The essay was interesting & while I didn’t agree many points he used to make his case, I agree NPR has been “off” Everyone has an example, @nic__carter got called “crazy conspiracy theorist” for using the popular “eat the big” meme was my damn wtf NPR moment. What’s yours? https://t.co/AH1C6n4afs
'CRITICAL FAILURE': After sounding the alarm about a lack of viewpoint diversity in the newsroom, one NPR editor said, "the response wasn’t hostile. It was worse." The editor is blowing the whistle on the left-leaning outlet's biased coverage: https://t.co/NqHGiy17hA https://t.co/PcFagBSwyk
How #NPR lost its way… https://t.co/BUhZ0uXnUW
Friends of @NPR say change should come from within, not by denying funding, but if that could work, it would never have been that journalists were forced to log the race of interviews to prove they were doing social justice for management, right? https://t.co/zpF4iBHTI2
This article -- by a liberal long employed at NPR -- describes what happened in most media outlets since Trump's election: they explicitly renounced any journalistic function in favor of becoming political activists in defense of what they see as a greater cause than journalism: https://t.co/RdO5GTFTHj
Veteran NPR reporter blasts outlet for being dominated by far-left activists who tell readers what to think https://t.co/C1PUNbsATW
"An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR..." This rings true and some of my worst media experiences have been on NPR stations. Once I was invited to talk about my research on "green" buildings on @OPB. My research showed that so-called green schools used more energy…
NPR Editor Makes Stunning Admission Over Left-Wing Bias. Read more: https://t.co/yp0MF5yeTc A senior editor at National Public Radio (NPR) says the outlet's response to the election of then...
Journalists and others should be able to destroy their opinions with facts. We’ve lost that ability. NPR is in the news today. But they’re all the same.
NPR shouldn't get any more public funding. It can survive on its own as the platform for coastal progressive elites. https://t.co/awa0FiUscP
NPR is the 1st thing I hear nearly every morning; it has certainly moved leftward since Trump, especially on cultural issues: https://t.co/CrHwmitV8m But it mirrors what happened across most institutions composed of educated liberals.
NPR not only asked interviewees their race, gender, and ethnicity, but they also entered that data into a centralized tracking system. Presumably to monitor how inclusive they were being in their coverage, but still. Reducing people to their labels doesn't tend to be a good move https://t.co/xGOFWsNOnU
A couple of points worth considering with regard to Uri Berliner's critique of NPR coverage on Russiagate, which he calls a "miscue."
With his much-read essay on NPR, Uri Berliner has added to the episodic data on partisan leanings of mainstream U.S. newsrooms. In NPR's D.C. HQ a few years ago, he found 87 Dem journos and 0 Republican journos. https://t.co/0wG8s3qAG2
So @NPR has NOT lurched far to the left in recent years?!? Could of fooled me https://t.co/vnrKzWaQms
In an email to staff, NPR acting Chief Content Officer Edith Chapin responds to Uri Berliner, saying she and NPR leadership "strongly disagree with Uri’s assessment of the quality of our journalism and the integrity of our newsroom processes." https://t.co/jUjrXPkwJf https://t.co/APv3aYOBmk
scoop: NPR editor in chief Edith Chapin responds to Uri Berliner’s essay in @TheFP: “I and my colleagues on the leadership team strongly disagree with Uri’s assessment of the quality of our journalism…” https://t.co/VLz2DOkGvI
When NPR asks for money, as they do with their tiresome fundraising campaigns, never give them any. We want to let this stone keep rolling down the hill until it hits bottom. Then we cut off federal funding. NPR’s demise is journalism’s gain! https://t.co/LWPi4xdpA1
A veteran NPR editor talked about just how biased newsrooms really are: https://t.co/EVEwFh6Tr5