Suppression/Propaganda in Media

[Belligerent Savant]

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NPR’s response to a dissenter within their ranks?

Suspension without pay.

Shameless. Brazen.

NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism

UPDATED APRIL 16, 202411:27 AM ET

David Folkenflik

NPR has formally punished Uri Berliner, the senior editor who publicly argued a week ago that the network had "lost America's trust" by approaching news stories with a rigidly progressive mindset.

Berliner's five-day suspension without pay, which began last Friday, has not been previously reported.

Yet the public radio network is grappling in other ways with the fallout from Berliner's essay for the online news site The Free Press. 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.

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https://www.npr.org/2024/04/16/12449620 ... nded-essay


(Qualifies for cross-posting in the ‘Liberals/Leftists’ thread)

[SonicG]

From NPR:

[Elvis]

Berliner is part of the problem at NPR. He's a rightwinger.

[Belligerent Savant]

Has someone taken over your account? If not, are you blissfully unaware of how absurd you sound? (Well, if you are blissully unaware of it, you won’t be able to answer this question properly, eh?)

Rhetorical questions.

I’m in awe of the stubborn* inability to soberly assess developments over the last several years with any modicum of objectivity.

*stubborn implies self-awareness, but increasingly those that reflexively utter retorts such as yours sound like unconscious robots, spewing output as instructed by their programming.

[Elvis]

Has someone taken over your account? If not, are you blissfully unaware of how absurd you sound? (Well, if you are blissully unaware of it, you won’t be able to answer this question properly, eh?)

Rhetorical questions.

I’m in awe of the stubborn* inability to soberly assess developments over the last several years with any modicum of objectivity.

*stubborn implies self-awareness, but increasingly those that reflexively utter retorts such as yours sound like unconscious robots, spewing output as instructed by their programming.

OMG. What?

Berliner was complaining that NPR needs more right-wing voices. NPR is quite conservative enough as it is. Screw him.

[BenDhyan]

NPR editor resigns after accusing US outlet of liberal bias

Uri Berliner quits broadcaster days after being suspended over essay accusing network of lacking viewpoint diversity.

“I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years.

“It’s frictionless – one story after another about instances of supposed racism, transphobia, signs of the climate apocalypse, Israel doing something bad and the dire threat of Republican policies. It’s almost like an assembly line.

Berlinera also cited voter registration data that he said showed there were 87 Democrats and no Republicans on staff at the outlet’s Washington, DC, headquarters.

[SonicG]

Maybe it needs less CIA voices:

hello friends I would like to show you a very interesting way to become the person who runs NPR first you go to work for CFR and the Eurasia group, then you monitor children’s phones in Malawi for “nutritional studies” (cough cough peter bourne) then you work for NDI/World Bank

https://twitter.com/HuntClancy/status/1 ... 0509429159

Hilarious

[Belligerent Savant]

[Belligerent Savant]

Berliner is part of the problem at NPR. He's a rightwinger.

Can you explain precisely how Berliner — a longtime employee of NPR, recently fired for expressing his views publicly — is a ‘rightwinger’?