NPR is biased in favor of leftists and the Democrat Party. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, this is not exactly news. Even former NPR Business Editor Uri Berliner, whose April 9 op-ed in The Free Press shed new light on the incredibly disproportionate left-wing bias of the outlet, had to admit that in 2011, liberals accounted for a significantly larger amount of audience share.
A 2010 study by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press in turn reported that 61 percent of NPR listeners described themselves as progressive, while a piece in the not-exactly-conservative publication The Nation described NPR as promoting a “lifestyle smugness” of “confident dispatches from the East Coast citadels of cultural consensus.”
No, what’s interesting about the NPR scandal is not Berliner’s exposé — which in short order led to his resignation following disciplinary action from his employer — but the response from NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who represents what is wrong with the technocratic class governing our elite institutions. In her milquetoast response to Berliner’s missive attacking NPR — which has renewed calls for defunding a media outlet that is partially funded by taxpayer dollars — Maher exposes the ideological narrowness and intellectual rot of our elite class.
Epitome of the Self-Serving Woke Technocrat
In an April 12 open letter Maher sent to NPR staff, she declared that “public media is essential for an informed public” and that “we succeed through our diversity.” She celebrated having “earned new trust from younger, more
