A senior editor at NPR, Uri Berliner, has criticized the network for its ideological conformity, lack of viewpoint diversity, and shift towards progressive activism. Berliner highlighted the overwhelming presence of registered Democrats compared to zero Republicans in editorial positions at NPR's D.C. headquarters. He expressed concerns about NPR's journalistic failures, bias, and loss of trust among conservatives. The editor's exposé has sparked debates on NPR's coverage and audience demographics.
Employee: NPR Tracks Race, Sex Of Sources And Lets Trans Activists Police Its Language https://t.co/BeLnhBbpWY
Top editors at NPR are defending the outlet’s journalism after a scathing op-ed from a former employee who argues the public broadcaster has lost its way. https://t.co/K6gGwdeyHX
The former is a thoughtfully written, very honest assessment of where a news room could stand to improve and gain back public trust. The latter is a rushed defense that inadvertently points to the very echo-chamber the first piece rightly critiques. As someone who grew up… https://t.co/Ikui1wtJgN
“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
nothing radicalized me more than listening to NPR for two decades https://t.co/wamIjiCEt5
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
NPR Journalist Exposes Partisanship at Taxpayer-Funded Outlet: 87 Democrats, ZERO Republicans "Concerned by the lack of viewpoint diversity, I looked at voter registration for our newsroom. In D.C., where NPR is headquartered and many of us live, I found 87 registered Democrats… https://t.co/kKMmyHyTmQ
My favorite thing about NPR’s “Empire Strikes Back” attack on Uri Berliner is that it’s authored by the same guy who wrote the piece about why NPR couldn’t possibly do journalism on the Hunter Biden laptop. https://t.co/GgzDsbsUC6
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 struck back on Tuesday at its senior business editor Uri Berliner’s lengthy screed alleging his own outlet has sacrificed journalistic values and adopted progressive views on issues that have alienated Americans. https://t.co/KxCm0bW6Yz
NPR editor found registered Democrats outnumbered Republicans 87 to zero in newsroom https://t.co/LUe3bPXOAY #FoxNews
The problem with NPR is that it’s gotten really fucking boring https://t.co/x0X6uFMduB
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.
I probably disagree with a liberal journalist named @uberliner on a lot of things, but I respect the heck out of him for coming out & speaking the truth about NPR’s failures. Most Americans have common sense, the thing we lack is courage. https://t.co/4jY8Ci0GgB
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
.@NPR editor details how company dismissed Hunter Biden laptop story to help Joe Biden win the election. https://t.co/9AZZUy0wsX
BREAKING: Far-left NPR employs 87 registered Democrats in editorial positions but zero Republicans in the same positions in its Washington, DC, headquarters, NPR Senior Editor Uri Berliner claims.
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
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
How long before the brave NPR editor exposing the woke broadcaster gets shown the door? https://t.co/8vja5DVXu4 https://t.co/k8pTHm9F4n
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
Senior business editor Uri Berliner wrote an essay claiming Americans no longer trust NPR because of its lack of “viewpoint diversity” and embrace of DEI. https://t.co/W8UMkITaxN
NPR editor found registered Democrats outnumbered Republicans 87 to zero in newsroom https://t.co/ySrVdxhxKz
"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 editor rebukes own outlet's coverage of Hunter Biden laptop, COVID lab leak and Russiagate https://t.co/II764FyTan
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.
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
NPR tried to attract more black and Hispanic listeners by running endless segments centering black and Hispanic voices. Turns out that it was actually white liberals that liked the stories. https://t.co/FiB8Czh0ta
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
That NPR operates as Pravda should shock nobody. Our media is the DNC's propaganda arm, just shoveling useless stories about some phantom -ism or phobia into your ears.
A veteran NPR editor talked about just how biased newsrooms really are: https://t.co/EVEwFh6Tr5
This piece about NPR's abandonment of normal journalistic standards won't be a surprise to conservatives, but this insider (a liberal himself) brings the receipts. https://t.co/kUnlw6ERZG I understand why he says "defunding isn't the answer", but nothing else is likely to work.
That NPR editor’s office this morning https://t.co/jyjAbjeZAX
"An Open-Minded Spirit No Longer Exists Within NPR" - NPR Veteran Excoriates Outlet Over Hunter, Russiagate Activism https://t.co/QfaTBSvqbq
Whoa!!! This is whistle blowing on ideological bias at NPR on a whole new scale. My hat is off to Uri Berliner. This took guts. https://t.co/J7v4PZiYMe
NPR journalist blows whistle on network's obsession with DEI and progressive diktats https://t.co/l93tnH8LVw https://t.co/8f6olJx8Qm
NPR Exposed: Insider Tells All About 'News' Outlet's Incredible Bias, Various Story Cover-Ups https://t.co/PJIREJdK32
An NPR veteran laments that, despite spending millions of dollars chasing minority listeners, almost no black or Hispanic Americans listen to NPR. "Our news audience [is] overwhelmingly white and progressive, and clustered around coastal cities and college towns." Maybe, he…
You know NPR is phony when every story is imbued with some banal “human interest” element related to social justice, activism and intersectionality. NPR has been unlistenable for news since ~2015. I still listen in the car for “opposition research” so I know MSM talking points. https://t.co/uNGC0Gv5o5
An NPR editors tells us the story of how NPR became an outlet for spewing hot left wing 💩💩 from a fire hose. https://t.co/hkrY6rNv9N
All (Approved) Things Considered: How We Lost Our Way at NPR – HotAir https://t.co/sTbKIst6Cy
Uri is right about pre-Trump NPR btw - yes it leaned left always, no it wasn't as unlistenable as it has become. I was a regular listener for years as a conservative, until about the last 5 years. Now, every segment is just a race to see who can get to "racism" or "trans" first. https://t.co/sQd6DHDpTA
NPR Veteran Takes Sledgehammer to His Current Employer's Creeping Liberal Bias | Opinion by @colbyhall https://t.co/95VaNT4v51
“It’s frictionless—one story after another about instances of supposed racism, transphobia, signs of the climate apocalypse, Israel doing something bad, and the dire threat of Republican policies. It’s almost like an assembly line.” Well worth reading - @NPR is a microcosm of… https://t.co/woPfYa0VNF
NPR Update: This article is very good look at the internal politics at NPR since 2016. Trump, then Covid, then BLM broke these people's brains. Though it's about NPR specifically, this story explains pretty much all of mainstream media over the last half decade https://t.co/0Ke5lAYH8g
NPR fail: Biz Editor Uri Berliner concedes it’s only for liberals now. Staff 87 Dems, ZERO GOP Defunding not the answer: Tells @bariweiss @TheFP 'Defunding wouldn’t change the journalism at NPR. That needs to come from within.' https://t.co/xldSLvwmDY via @dcexaminer
Incredible piece by an NPR editor on the evolution of NPR over decades. https://t.co/MqBBiN9xqr https://t.co/dEN2BEQDv1
NPR's senior business editor Uri Berliner details how the newsroom was overtaken by Trump Derangement Syndrome after 2016. https://t.co/qwUnBsTBXr
“The trajectory for NPR is not promising. Two paths seem clear. We can keep doing what we’re doing, hoping it will all work out. Or we could start over, with the basic building blocks of journalism.” Senior @NPR editor @uberliner speaks out in The FP: https://t.co/EclQJO838a https://t.co/ZS1q5yIbkM
In 2011, 26% of NPR listeners identified as conservative. That number dropped to 11% by 2023. NPR has become the Pravda Press for Democrats. It should receive no government subsidies. https://t.co/QEJp2qrqxC
In my experience NPR’s worldview is extremely *liberal*, not left wing—the archetypal NPR article nowadays is more “story about how white people using GIFs of Black people is digital Blackface” rather than “story about sectoral bargaining for workers” https://t.co/GgwmFTXMvN https://t.co/BozA6DG7gc
This is really a must-read piece from NPR senior editor Uri Berliner discussing how NPR morphed from a liberal newsroom with some bias to an organization dominated by activists set on telling readers what to think and refusing to account for mistakes. https://t.co/I5a10uf9v0
This amply documented indictment of the bias at NPR could apply with equal force to countless other news organizations. https://t.co/zN4IaF0ycZ
Read this. NPR veteran describes the transformation of NPR from a news to an activist organization after Trump's election: "During most of my tenure [at NPR], an open-minded, curious culture prevailed. We were nerdy, but not knee-jerk, activist, or scolding. In recent years,… https://t.co/wYMaBFSbAK
It’s not at all surprising that zero NPR editors are registered Republicans. And it’s not going to change if the political views at the Daily Princetonian are any indication: https://t.co/sh1LUWmJWl https://t.co/jMVhZY4eik
It’s not all surprising that zero NPR editors are registered Republicans. And it’s not going to change if the political views at the Daily Princetonian are any indication: https://t.co/QmPMCDEEuE https://t.co/jMVhZY4eik
"And this, I believe, is the most damaging development at NPR: the absence of viewpoint diversity." https://t.co/aQ9siRhDVg
"In 2011, although NPR’s audience tilted a bit to the left, it still bore a resemblance to America at large. Twenty-six percent of listeners described themselves as conservative, 23 percent as middle of the road, and 37 percent as liberal. By 2023, the picture was completely…
“We could face up to where we’ve gone wrong. News organizations don’t go in for that kind of reckoning. But there’s a good reason for NPR to be the first: we’re the ones with the word ‘public’ in our name.” @uriberliner's hope for a U.S. media institution. https://t.co/EclQJO838a https://t.co/CvFfSoL3xx
'There’s an unspoken consensus about the stories we [NPR] should pursue and how they should be framed. It’s frictionless—one story after another about instances of supposed racism, transphobia, signs of the climate apocalypse, Israel doing something bad, and the dire threat of…
Why does NPR get public money? https://t.co/alK3rM7UGM
I used to listen to NPR all the time. Sure, it leaned left, but there was a lot of interesting coverage. Now I can’t help but roll my eyes when someone says in conversation, “well, I heard on NPR…” Clearly, I’m not alone: https://t.co/zNbSo7BpxU https://t.co/jMVhZY4eik
this here is worth reading, from a long-time, current, NPR editor #NPR https://t.co/b4yTNjP5Yn #NPR #trust
WATCH: NPR's senior business editor Uri Berliner details how the newsroom was overtaken by Trump Derangement Syndrome after 2016 and how the "media" uncritically pushed Adam Schiff's garbage Russia collusion theory because they wanted to damage President Trump in an interview… https://t.co/Fcqu0Uhd1g
“In D.C., where @NPR is headquartered and many of us live, I found 87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans. None.” @uberliner on his outlet’s shift from “curious” and “open-minded” to “knee-jerk, activist, or scolding.” https://t.co/EclQJO838a
NPR journalist blows whistle on network's obsession with DEI and progressive diktats and reveals how stories like Hunter Biden laptop were ignored: 'Here's how we lost America's trust' https://t.co/cVi92AyAth https://t.co/qRIFgx0Nxe
He Found Zero Republicans at NPR’s D.C. Bureau In an exclusive interview, senior business editor at @NPR @UBerliner explains to @bariweiss the utter lack of diversity of thought at the public news organization. “I decided to look at voter registration among our staff… I looked… https://t.co/3hSZT9k4bc
An honest piece encapsulating a major problem at both @NPR ( &other news orgs). The author nails why conservatives, independents, etc, no longer trust or listen to NPR. Will they hear him? "the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population."…
An honest piece encapsulating a major problem at both @NPR ( &other news orgs). The author nails why conservatives, independents, etc, not longer trust or listen to NPR. Will they hear him? "the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population."…
An honest piece encapsulating a major problem at both NPR ( &other news orgs). The author nails why conservatives, independents, etc, not longer trust or listen to NPR. Will they hear him? "the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population."…
What the hell happened at NPR? Now we know. https://t.co/NpOQkdfbdG
After @NPR interviewed me in 2016 post-election, and was shocked that I challenged their bias, they suggested they would not carry conservatives live on air again. They walked that back, but I haven’t been on since then, and they’re so bad even my liberal relatives have given up. https://t.co/QxdPYgiYOj
“Our news audience doesn’t come close to reflecting America. It’s overwhelmingly white and progressive, and clustered around coastal cities and college towns.” @uberliner, a 25-year veteran at @NPR, on what went wrong at the prestigious news organization. https://t.co/EclQJO838a
NPR = a far left Ministry of Truth straight out of Orwell https://t.co/6lQgeRfkrV
A scathing exposé from a senior editor at @NPR on the ideological conformity and journalistic failures at the network. From @TheFP https://t.co/7s7GilbPIo
"In D.C., where NPR is headquartered and many of us live, I found 87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans. None." https://t.co/BtfkfY9Epg
The DEI obsession has utterly warped the minds of those running our public institutions. What began many years ago as a well-meaning mission to tackle prejudice has developed into a relentless moral lecture. It's like a nervous tic. https://t.co/7g0izs7YVE