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Opinion Here’s why Uri Berliner couldn’t stay at NPR

Media critic|
April 18, 2024 at 6:57 p.m. EDT
The headquarters of NPR in D.C. in April 2013. (Charles Dharapak/AP)
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Uri Berliner is offended.

In an April 9 essay in the Free Press, Berliner, who worked at NPR for 25 years, raps his employer for allegedly running a newsroom fueled by progressive sensibilities that seep into a skewed on-air product. Stories on Trump-Russia, Hunter Biden and covid-19 have all suffered from acute NPRitis, he writes. And racial and identity considerations — as well as affinity groups — shape workplace culture.