NPR Whistleblower Defends Damning Column on Outlet’s Liberal Bias to Chris Cuomo: ‘People Are Just Sick of It’

NPR’s Uri Berliner appeared on NewsNation’s Cuomo on Tuesday where he defended his column in which he exposed his employer’s liberal bias and asserted he is not terribly worried about his future at the public radio giant.

Speaking to host Chris Cuomo, Berliner addressed the response he got from some of his NPR colleagues but noted that not everyone there disagreed with him:

I’m not surprised by the response that, you know, came from management and the same managers that I’ve been making a lot of these points about, and they’re certainly entitled to that perspective. I will say I’ve had a lot of support from colleagues, and many of them unexpected, who say they agree with me. Some of them say this confidentially, but I think there’s been a lot of response saying, look, these are things that need to be addressed. We haven’t, we’ve been too reluctant, too frightened, too timid to deal with these things. And I think that, this is this is the right opportunity to bring it all out in the open.

In his column for The Free Press, the senior business editor at NPR said: “An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR, and now, predictably, we don’t have an audience that reflects America. 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.”

Cuomo flat-out asked Berliner if he was worried about keeping his job after using such “powerful” words about his current employer. But Berliner quickly said he wasn’t and expressed his faith in the future of discourse:

I’m not worried. You know, I think people want open dialog. I think people want to have honest debates. And I think, you know, you talked about there’s a hunger for this. Most people are not locked into ideologies. And I think many people are just sick of it. And that’s one of the reasons people distrust so much of the media whether it’s, you know, legacy media, whether it’s conservative media, you know what you’re getting. It’s all pre digested and spit out to you. You know what the take is going to be. And I think it’s ultimately unsatisfying. And for a vast part of this nation they don’t want it. So I think I think there’s an opportunity there for much broader perspectives in how we cover the news.

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