NPR Suspends Whistle-Blowing Editor For Telling Truth About Left-Wing Bias

NPR suspended veteran editor Uri Berliner after he posted details about his employer’s "absence of viewpoint diversity." 

Last week, Berliner published a guest article for The Free Press in which he documents how NPR willfully ignored the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 election at the risk of spreading a story that could help Donald Trump win the election.

"The laptop was newsworthy," Berliner wrote. "But the timeless journalistic instinct of following a hot story lead was being squelched."

He then criticized NPR's use of partisan, left-wing talking points during its coverage of Russiagate, the COVID lab leak theory, systemic racism, and antisemitism following Oct. 7. 

Berliner reported that registration records in 2021 showed a sharp disparity between Democrats and Republicans in the NPR newsroom.

NPR media reporter David Folkenflik reported Berliner's five-day suspension without pay began on Friday.

"It angered many of his colleagues, led NPR leaders to announce monthly internal reviews of the network's coverage, and gave fresh ammunition to conservative and partisan Republican critics of NPR, including former President Donald Trump," Folkenflik wrote. 

Folkenflik says he spoke to Berliner directly, in a conversation in which the suspended editor voiced his frustration with new NPR CEO Katherine Maher. 

For background: Maher is an ardent leftist elite, whose old tweets this week revealed her avowed support for Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. She, a white woman, has a lengthy history of posting concerns over "white silence" and justifying looting. 

Anyway, that is the lady now in charge of NPR.

Asked about Berliner's future, a former high-level NPR executive who worked with Berliner recently told Fox News Digital that it would be hard for Berliner to remain at the company:

"It seems to me that it would be very difficult for him now at NPR. I’ve seen stuff on the internet that he’s come under attack by people who are still at NPR. I think he did this out of a sense of principle." 

Simply put, NPR is no different from the New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN: a former news organization now compromised by self-righteous, stuck-a-bubble left-wing instruments.  

Except you, the taxpayer, help fund NPR.