The taxpayer-funded pundits at National Public Radio (NPR) follow editorial guidance crafted by radical trans activists and hyperfixate on the skin color of their sources, according to a whistleblower op-ed published in The Free Press.
Senior Business Editor Uri Berliner is a 25-year veteran of NPR who outlined Tuesday how the outlet “lost America’s trust.”
“An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR, and now, predictably, we don’t have an audience that reflects America,” Berliner wrote. “That wouldn’t be a problem for an openly polemical news outlet serving a niche audience. But for NPR, which purports to consider all things, it’s devastating both for its journalism and its business model.”
Berliner pointed to NPR’s commitment to intersectionality and explained that so-called diversity — specifically of skin color and sexual identities — became its “North Star.” Overall, “[r]ace and identity,” Berliner said, “became paramount in nearly every aspect of the workplace.”
Berliner explained that NPR reporters were required to ask every person they interviewed about their sex, skin color, and ethnicity, and then input that information into “a centralized tracking system.” He added that NPR’s burgeoning “diversity, equity, and inclusion” staff organized meetings intended to spark conversations about race, with monthly sessions for “men of color” and “women of color” that included “nonbinary people.” Journalists also underwent “unconscious bias training sessions.”
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But it wasn’t just race, and it wasn’t just a top-down effort to become more “inclusive.” Berliner explained that
