At the “Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the Heads of NPR and PBS Accountable” House hearing, Katherine Maher, the president and CEO of NPR, testified and falsely claimed that “it is critical for NPR’s newsroom to operate with the highest journalistic standards. That means they do their jobs independently, and as CEO I have no editorial role at NPR.”
While it would be “critical for NPR’s newsroom to operate with the highest journalistic standards”, it’s not actually the case.
And whatever Mather’s definition of an “editorial role” may be, she certainly had the power to force out Uri Berliner, an NPR business editor, after he wrote a Free Press editorial critical of her.
Maher’s response to Berliner’s accusations that NPR had become a political monoculture and had failed to report honestly on everything from Hunter Biden’s laptop to Israel’s resistance against Hamas, was to send out and post an essay on NPR attacking him.
Berliner was suspended and pushed into resigning. Maher’s editorial accused Berliner of being “profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning”. Is that an “editorial role”? It’s certainly nothing resembling journalists being able to do their job independently.
So the NPR CEO lied to Congress about that. And apparently just about everything else.
Who’s Maher’s BFF at the Free Press?
The rats are scurrying with the light on them
Nazi Propaganda Radio and Propaganda Broadcasting System we can do without them both
Can’t she even comb her hair? Is it a full time job being a dumb, lying bitch? Just because you always look like you got out of bed without taking a shower doesn’t mean you have to do it.
Six down votes?
I see we have some skank lovers here. What do you do when you’re with somebody that ugly? Count each other’s fleas? Consider yourselves lucky just to get laid?
NPR and PBS announcers can do minor league play-by-play or golf coverage if NPR and PBS go belly-up, but they may show bias against righties.
Their soporiphic manner of speaking would never last on a sports broad cast… “Scheffler strikes his 70 foot putt …. The ball roles toward the hole. It falls in. He has won the event” All spoken in soft monotone.
She can lie until her heart is content because she knows that democrats will defender her not matter what even if she is a lying incompetent skunk.
A fish rots from the head.