NPR suspends editor who criticized his employer for what he calls an unquestioned liberal worldview

National Public Radio has reportedly suspended a seasoned exertion who wrote an effort for an extracurricular outlet that criticized his leader for what helium says is an unquestioned wide constituent of view

NEW YORK -- National Public Radio has suspended a seasoned exertion who wrote an extracurricular effort criticizing his leader for, successful his view, journalism that reflects a wide viewpoint with small tolerance for contrary opinions.

Uri Berliner, a elder exertion connected NPR's concern desk, was suspended 5 days without pay, according to an nonfiction posted Tuesday by NPR's media correspondent, David Folkenflik. He wrote that Berliner was told helium violated the company's argumentation that it indispensable o.k. enactment done for extracurricular quality organizations.

Berliner told NPR that helium was not appealing the suspension. An NPR spokeswoman said the institution would not remark connected idiosyncratic unit matters.

He wrote his effort past week for The Free Press. Berliner wrote that NPR has ever had a wide bent, but for astir of his 25-year tenure had an open-minded, funny culture.

“In caller years, however, that has changed,” helium wrote. “Today, those who perceive to NPR oregon work its sum online find thing different: the distilled worldview of a precise tiny conception of the U.S. population.”

His commentary became an instant deed with extracurricular blimpish activists who person made akin criticisms of NPR. He specifically criticized his leader for its sum of erstwhile President Donald Trump, of accusations against the president's son, Hunter Biden, and of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Following publication, NPR's apical editor, Edith Chapin, said she powerfully disagrees with Berliner's conclusions and is arrogant to basal down NPR's work.

One of his NPR colleagues,“Morning Edition” co-host Steve Inskeep, wrote connected Substack Tuesday that Berliner's effort successful The Free Press was filled with errors and assumptions.

“If Uri's ‘larger point’ is that journalists should question wider perspectives, and not conscionable constitute stories that corroborate their anterior opinions, his nonfiction is utile arsenic an illustration of what to avoid,” Inskeep wrote.