According to a whistleblower op-ed published in The Free Press, the taxpayer-funded pundits at National Public Radio ( NPR ) adhere to editorial guidance crafted by radical trans activists and hyperfixate on the skin color of their sources.
Uri Berliner, a 25-year former of NPR, described on Tuesday how the publication “lost America’s believe.”
” An open- minded spirit no longer exists within NPR, and now, predictably, we do n’t have an audience that reflects America”, Berliner wrote. That would n’t be a problem for a blatantly polemical news outlet that focuses on a particular audience. However, it is devastating for both NPR’s media and business model, which claims to take into account everything.
Berliner cited NPR’s commitment to intersectionality and explained how the network’s” North Star” was created in response to the organization’s commitment to “intersectionality” in particular skin color and physical identities. Overall,” ]r ] ace and identity”, Berliner said, “became paramount in nearly every aspect of the workplace”.
According to Berliner, NPR writers were required to collect information from each interviewee regarding their gender, skin tone, and ethnicity, before entering it into” a centralized monitoring system.” He added that NPR’s burgeoning “diversity, capital, and participation” workers organized meetings intended to fire conversations about culture, with regular sessions for “men of colour” and “women of colour” that included “nonbinary people”. Editors also participated in “unconscious discrimination education sessions.”
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But it was n’t just race, and it was n’t just a top- down effort to become more “inclusive”. With the government-funded site’s editorial guidance created with pro-trans activists, Beltiner explained that this identity-obsessed North Star began to determine the conditions reporters used in stories. Berliner wrote:
Implicit consensus exists regarding the themes to pursue and how to frame them. It’s smooth — one tale after another about instances of supposed prejudice, stigmatization, signs of the weather apocalypse, Israel doing something terrible, and the severe threat of Democrat policies. It’s almost like an assembly line.
The thinking prevails in options about language. In a file called NPR Transgender Coverage Guidance—disseminated by media management—we’re asked to prevent the term natural sex. ( A former staffer of the National Center for Transgender Equality assisted in the creation of the editorial guidance. )
In accordance with Berliner, NPR’s visitors changed from a slightly more liberal audience and listening in 2011 to only 11 percent liberal and 67 percent liberal by 2023. And as for NPR’s D. C. office? In 2021, Bergeriner claimed to have discovered 87 registered Democrats holding newspaper jobs and ZERO Republicans. None”. His colleagues did n’t seem to care.  ,
” As with Donald Trump, the fall of lobbying took off, like many terrible things. As in many publications, his vote in 2016 was greeted at NPR with a mixture of amazement, anger, and sadness. ( Just to be clear, I eagerly voted against Trump twice but felt like we had to defend him fairly. ) )”, Berliner wrote. ” But what began as strong, clear protection of a belligerent, truth- impaired president veered toward efforts to harm or destroy Trump’s presidency”.
Berliner highlighted three primary stories where NPR’s coverage “faltered”, including the origins of the novel coronavirus, the Hunter Biden laptop, and the Trump- Russia hoax — which was propelled by Rep. Adam Schiff, D- Calif., who was interviewed by hosts at the public media organization at least 25 times.
” During many of those conversations, Schiff alluded to purported evidence of collusion. According to Berliner, the Schiff talking points became NPR’s daily beatbeat. ” But when the Mueller report found no credible evidence of collusion, NPR’s coverage was notably sparse. Russiagate quietly faded from our programming”.
Editors also criticized the Biden laptop for quoting the election-year bombshell, which referred to Joe Biden’s involvement with his son’s potential criminal business schemes as a “waste” of “time on stories that are not really stories.” NPR also criticized the coronavirus as a lab leak, which defied the official narratives of Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins, former NIH head, and NPR.
” Reporting on a possible lab leak”, Berliner said, “became radioactive”.
NPR did not respond to The Federalist’s multiple requests for comment.
Berliner claimed that because he sees a need for a good-faith “public” news organization, defunding National Public Radio is not the answer. But as his expose demonstrates, the” P” in NPR could just as easily stand for “propaganda”.
