“All things considered.” That’s been NPR’s slogan for decades. However, as most of us know, that hasn’t been the case for quite some time. And today, Uri Berliner, a senior editor who’s been with NPR for twenty five years, ripped the mask off even further.

So when I got a job here 25 years ago, I never looked back. As a senior editor on the business desk where news is always breaking, we’ve covered upheavals in the workplace, supermarket prices, social media, and AI.

It’s true NPR has always had a liberal bent, but during most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed. We were nerdy, but not knee-jerk, activist, or scolding.

In recent years, however, that has changed. Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population.
If you are conservative, you will read this and say, duh, it’s always been this way.

But it hasn’t.

Yes, NPR has always erred on the side of liberals. Yet, what Uri Berliner shows is that the culture and journalism of NPR took a very hard left turn in recent years. From Trump, to George Floyd, Russia collusion, Hunter’s laptop, Covid, and now DEI, NPR is now considering only the progressive things instead of ALL THE THINGS. 

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

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Trump’s 2016 election really broke the entire newsroom. So much so that NPR chose to interview Russiagate loon Adam Schiff over TWENTY FIVE TIMES. But what happened when no collusion was found? 

But when the Mueller report found no credible evidence of collusion, NPR’s coverage was notably sparse. Russiagate quietly faded from our programming.

All things considered means ignoring the years worth of egg landing on your face and hoping the viewership doesn’t notice. The very same thing happened with the Hunter Biden laptop story. Did NPR consider all the things and report on it? NOPE. Because Trump and reasons. 

The laptop was newsworthy. But the timeless journalistic instinct of following a hot story lead was being squelched. During a meeting with colleagues, I listened as one of NPR’s best and most fair-minded journalists said it was good we weren’t following the laptop story because it could help Trump.

When the essential facts of the Post’s reporting were confirmed and the emails verified independently about a year and a half later, we could have fessed up to our misjudgment. But, like Russia collusion, we didn’t make the hard choice of transparency.

No, NPR hasn’t made the hard choices of transparency or even committing actual journalism for a number of years now. As we are reminded by Ed at Instapundit, NPR made sure to let everyone know that those involved with the Tea Party were in fact, tea bags. And let’s not forget that NPR, along with much of the media, had their knives out for Mitt Romney. They are doing the same now with the current Presidential campaign season. 

Oh you guys want to Portray Mitt Romney as an extreme and abusive sociopath? Okay, well here's the real thing then.

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Those are just a few of the hundreds of instances leading up to 2016 where NPR lost their way. So, this mea culpa by Uri Berliner is interesting on a multitude of levels. 

The George Floyd riots really turned the NPR newsroom on its ear. 

Instead of exploring the question of systemic racism in America, Berliner writes that the message from the top was clear: ‘America’s infestation with systemic racism was declared loud and clear: it was a given. Our mission was to change it.’

Lansing then reportedly declared that ‘diversity’ would now be NPR’s ‘North Star’, an initiative bolstered by a $1million grant from the NPR foundation.

Journalists would not be required to ask everyone they interviewed about their race, gender and ethnicity, before entering their answers in a centralized tracking system

A centralized tracking system??!! Shades of George Orwell! Oh, but it goes further than that. 

Berliner sums it up as: ‘In essence, this means the NPR union, of which I am a dues-paying member, has ensured that advocacy groups are given a seat at the table in determining the terms and vocabulary of our news coverage.’

So, instead of actual objective reporting the only things that must be considered before publishing a story is race, diversity, and all the other woke objectives circling specialized groups in society today. NPR is all in on promoting anti-police rhetoric. 

In fact, they wrote approvingly about how looting is necessary when it fits the chosen narrative. 

Keep in mind, that NPR claims they are an “independent” news organization. How independent can you be if one has to check all the appropriate and approved boxes before writing let alone publishing a story? 

It's an interesting article, and what happened at NPR mirrors what happened at dozens of other institutions. Libs bitch about Colonization but they love Progization. https://t.co/dPf0at3eZM

— Larry Correia (@monsterhunter45) April 9, 2024

As we’ve documented here, NPR has been garbage for quite some time. They thought it was a terrific idea to broadcast a woman’s abortion. Let’s not forget their approving articles covering Kamala’s gaffes and word salads as if it was the best thing ever! The SCOTUS mask flap was a comical face plant. Meanwhile, sports fans are racist most, if not all the time. 

Uri Berliner certainly ripped multiple masks off with his article. Now, the question is, will he still have a job by the end of the week? 

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