Simon Hankinson
At a congressional hearing last week, National Public Radio (NPR)’s CEO Katherine Maher opened with this: “I welcome the opportunity to discuss the essential role of public media in bringing unbiased, nonpartisan, fact-based reporting to Americans.”
I suspect Maher did not welcome the opportunity at all—she was on the hot seat. Maher, who became NPR’s CEO in 2023, is as woke as they come and has in the recent past railed against Trump, “white silence,” and “whiteness” in general.
At her hearing, she also told Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) that she has “never seen any instance of political bias determining editorial decisions” at NPR.
I am sure Maher does not for a second believe that NPR is non-partisan. Its bias is as obvious as the nose on Big Bird’s face.
The Washington Post wrote that “NPR has struggled for many years to diversify its audience and provide alternative perspectives.” Paul du Quenoy of the Palm Beach Freedom Institute describes NPR as a “radical leftist, government-subsidized news source.”
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While NPR once served as a source of wide-ranging news stories of general interest to a broad swathe of Americans, it now embodies wokeness on air.
Take it from Uri Berliner, who worked there for 25 years. In a sad summary of the network’s decline in the Free Press, he wrote that “those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find…the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population.”
Take it from Heritage Foundation scholar Mike Gonzalez, who testified during the same congressional hearing about “NPR’s and PBS’s naked and full-hearted embrace of very progressive views.”
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https://www.heritage.org/border-security/commentary/nprs-blatant-immigration-bias-borders-the-absurd