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captkirk said:

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They are going to have to fire her. The only question is, how many days does she have left?

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Why? They have zero shame. I do not accept that she is embarrassed.

The leftist who called them out as biased has now resigned, but heaped praise on the organization as he is actually a loyal communist party member, on his way out (he just took the criticism of himself personally, being a feelings-first person). The member stations/board won't demand her resignation, and have no interest in changing their role as communist narrative builders/enforcers.

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Too much heat and too much public insanity. They are still accountable to the taxpayers at some level.

She isn't embarrassed at all, but her bosses are

She should be booted. NPR should be cancelled. I can think of NO reason why taxpayers should fund this expensive leftist propaganda outlet that does NOT represent America. Give me one reason why taxpayers should fund NPR.
If R's ever win the House, Senate and Pres. , NPR should be terminated no later than Day 1.

both she and NPR are protected. They feel so safe they are willing to say all this publicly.

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She flat out calls the First Ammendment a "challenge".

That tells you all you need to know about this woman, and any organization she is involved with should be immediately suspect of censorship and manipulation.

And her blatherings about truth sound like a bad philosophy professor trying to confuse and screw up her student's minds. All that "truth is relative" and "there is no absolute truth" or "truth may mean one thing to you and something else to another" is a lie straight from the pit of hell.

This woman shouldn't be anywhere near a government funded entity that disseminates news to the general public.

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I'm not even sure this woman should be anywhere near any sammich-making facility either.

She is a tyrant. She should be dealt with accordingly.

Stopped at 1:44 of the first video. She's a good, empathetic speaker. But, no, there are not multiple truths based on who you are or what you look like. There are unique experiences. I despise people that twist the meaning of words.

Check out what she did at her previous gig:

Katherine Maher was formerly the Wikimedia CEO.

Wikipedia frequently asks for donations:

These donations are naturally assumed to be for Wikipedia, and to keep it running. However, Wikipedia has large reserves and income, and doesn't need your money.

Instead the money goes to… pic.twitter.com/nNDp6lEoZk

— Jonatan Pallesen (@jonatanpallesen) April 19, 2024

Straight up swamp propagandist. No wonder she was hired by NPR-CIA Media.

The Carnegie Endowment is a CIA incubator & Blob ops planning shop where CIA impeachment star Eric Ciaramella joined as soon as he left gov't.

The Carnegie Endowment was run from 2014-2021 by Bill Burns. In 2021, he stepped down. To become the current chief of the CIA. https://t.co/Arv2tEBMEs pic.twitter.com/LpXeA7zcgu

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) April 18, 2024

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This is a person who fundamentally either doesn't understand or is straight up opposed to western thought.

(That first clip wasn't all THAT bad, that Ted talk was insane)

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Absolutely. Look at her education (yes per wikipedia )

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After high school, Maher graduated from the Arabic Language Institute's Arabic Language Intensive Program of The American University in Cairo in 2003, which she recalled as a formative experience that developed her interest in the Middle East.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Maher#cite_note-AmericanUniversityCairo-Top99ForeignPolicyLeaders-2013-10][10][/url] Maher subsequently studied at the Institut franais d'tudes arabes de Damas in Syria and spent time in Lebanon and Tunisia.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Maher#cite_note-Wikimujeres-WikimaniaInterview-2016-2][2][/url][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Maher#cite_note-WSJ-Open-Tunisia-2012-11][11][/url][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Maher#cite_note-ability-12][12][/url]

In 2005, Maher received a bachelor's degree from New York University in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Maher#cite_note-NYUAlumniMag-2000s-2014-13][13][/url][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Maher#cite_note-14][14][/url]

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[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Maher#cite_note-14][/url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Maher

It's also hilarious that same wiki page references Berliner's "accusations of left-wing bias at NPR". THen following the accusations, conservative journalists....

THere is no proven left wing bias only accusations, but it is definitely conservative journalists discussing her past tweets.

captkirk said:

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nortex97 said:

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captkirk said:

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They are going to have to fire her. The only question is, how many days does she have left?

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Why? They have zero shame. I do not accept that she is embarrassed.

The leftist who called them out as biased has now resigned, but heaped praise on the organization as he is actually a loyal communist party member, on his way out (he just took the criticism of himself personally, being a feelings-first person). The member stations/board won't demand her resignation, and have no interest in changing their role as communist narrative builders/enforcers.

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Too much heat and too much public insanity. They are still accountable to the taxpayers at some level.

She isn't embarrassed at all, but her bosses are

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Highly doubt it. Why would they be? It's the premiere intellectual propaganda arm for Democrats. They love her beliefs.

Also, does she not recognize the irony of stating there is no objective truth while simultaneously lamenting that she can't censor the truths she doesn't like?

Said every totalitarian ever.

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NPR’s new CEO: “Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction getting in the way of finding common ground & getting things done.”

This gets to the heart of the cultural divide in the modern West: whether you believe truth is a priority or a hindrancepic.twitter.com/Pkwy5kkNWy

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) April 17, 2024

32 MILLION views. Amazing. We would never see this if it weren't for X https://t.co/Bv0aWfiJU2

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) April 18, 2024

This is how you get Transgenderism, Minor Attracted Persons, and eventually Wrong Think Camps.

Defund NPR today...



My truth, your truth, everywhere a truth, truth...

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So she has rebranded propaganda as that her truth is the only "truth" that matters.

Joseph Goebbels would be envious to the "new" master.

aggiez03 said:

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NPR’s new CEO: “Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction getting in the way of finding common ground & getting things done.”

This gets to the heart of the cultural divide in the modern West: whether you believe truth is a priority or a hindrancepic.twitter.com/Pkwy5kkNWy

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) April 17, 2024

32 MILLION views. Amazing. We would never see this if it weren't for X https://t.co/Bv0aWfiJU2

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) April 18, 2024

This is how you get Transgenderism, Minor Attracted Persons, and eventually Wrong Think Camps.

Defund NPR today...



My truth, your truth, everywhere a truth, truth...

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These are the same people that talk about "science" as if it were fact. Of course, the "science" they speak of is heavy on global warming and other leftist idiocy. But putting that aside, they can't have it both ways: either there's truth/facts or there's not.

Frog says we don't need to get out of the pot.

People like NPR's Maher are precisely why the Founders felt it necessary to enumerate certain freedoms are above reproach.

What a ghoul.

To be fair she maybe had something of a point. There is no truth on NPR.

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This is the CEO of NPR?

NPR is more interested in fantasy than truth.

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They are actually focused on silencing conservative truth and disguising liberal truth.

More on defunding public broadcasting.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/2972468/next-gop-president-defund-woke-public-broadcasting/

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The next GOP president should defund woke public broadcasting
By Mike Gonzalez April 20, 2024 6:00 am
Public broadcasting's taxpayer funding is probably safe as long as the White House and at least half of Congress remain controlled by Democrats, but it is difficult to see how it survives if the situation ever reverses as it is sure to do one day.

Vociferous supporters of PBS, NPR, Pacifica Radio, and all the other public broadcasting outlets (of whom there are legions) will irately blame NPR veteran Uri Berliner, activist Chris Rufo, journalist Bari Weiss, and others who have recently shone a spotlight on just how lopsidedly progressive (nay, woke) PBS and especially NPR have become.

They would do better to look inward and blame their own hubris, or at least that of the management of public broadcasters. They thought they could take money from everyone, but only reflect, and respect, the thinking of a woke minority that may be ascendant in the Ivies, the federal administrative state, and the management of the Smithsonian institutions, but scarce in tailgate parties at SEC football games or backyard barbecues across this land.

Many of us have long known that there was a serious problem with a taxpayer-funded programming system that ignored half the country. As a full disclosure, I have written extensively on the need to defund NPR and PBS, for the Heritage Foundation, the Knight Foundation, and, most recently, by authoring one of the chapters in the Mandate for Leadership document written by Project 2025.

Project 2025 has brought together more than 100 conservative groups to, among other things, write recommendations for the next conservative president. Ergo, one of these recommendations is to withdraw taxpayer support for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which gets around half a billion dollars a year in congressional appropriations and then disburses these monies to NPR, PBS, Pacifica, etc.

NPR's new CEO, Katherine Maher, is the poster child of everything wrong with the CPB. She was chosen to lead the network of radio stations present in every American state and every city despite a long history of very progressive public statements which made clear that she would have a very conscious bias toward all things Left.

That should have been a problem for a broadcaster whose signature show is called All Things Considered, and which, again, is partially paid for by everyone. But it obviously was not a problem. Maher was lauded by all as the woman who could lead NPR in the 21st century.

How biased is Katherine Maher? Well, in one tweet written in 2020, she called Trump a "deranged racist sociopath." In another, she cheered on as Black Lives Matter, a group set up by Marxists who say they want to dismantle American society, norms, and even the family, gelled into a global network in 2014.

On and on it goes. Her tweets and public statements in TED talks, etc., are so cringe-worthy that Robby Soave wrote in Reason magazine, "Her earnest, uncompromising wokeness land acknowledgments, condemnations of Western holidays, and so on sounds like they were written by parody accounts such as The Babylon Bee or Titania McGrath."....

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The Family business. See: Her grandfather.

Intelligence & statecraft are a family biz. I’m struck by Katherine Maher’s family going out their way to brag in her grandpa’s obituary: “family lore contends he may or may not have been a postwar spy.” He was in France in May 1968 as the CIA rent-a-riot ousted Charles de Gaulle https://t.co/ZrvFELYiUU pic.twitter.com/gWzxe3ZWhG

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) April 20, 2024

My heavens that woman is horrible in so many ways. It's a shame so many idiots are getting 'in charge' places.

It is a primary source of news for white liberals, something they are…ashamed to admit.

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The best part of the story, though, is the angst over NPR failing the crucial identitarian diversity test. NPR's listening audience is 75 percent white, and that won't do. Having state-run Democratic Party media is useless unless it reinforces the previous voting habits of minorities, which are slipping away from Democrats right now.

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One 2020 survey, from the Pew Research Center, found that of the people who named NPR as their main source for political and election news, 75 percent were white, more than any other outlet except Fox News. . .

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OMGThe Times is comparing NPR to Fox News! That has to hurt. There is no lower blow imaginable.

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NPR's leaders redoubled their efforts to diversify their audience and work force and closely tracked metrics for each. They added podcasts aimed at people of color and younger listeners. They promoted people of color to high-profile reporting and hosting jobs. All of these moves were meant to ensure the nation's public radio network would remain competitive as the country's population continued to grow more diverse.

So it came as a disappointment to some people on NPR's board last fall when they were presented new internal data showing their efforts hadn't moved the needle much with Black and Hispanic podcast listeners. . .

NPR's efforts to diversify itself and its audience didn't always live up to the expectations of the people who worked there. During a round of layoffs last year, NPR cut "Louder Than a Riot," a hip-hop podcast that examined Black and queer issues. After that decision, the show's editor, Soraya Shockley, who had previously worked at The Times, grilled Mr. Lansing [NPR's previous president] during an employee question-and-answer session about why the show had no dedicated budget, pointing out the lack of resources supporting content that furthered diversity, equity and inclusion, or D.E.I.

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The angst over this turned into a Maoist struggle session:

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Later on the call, after Mr. Lansing urged employees to be more mindful of "civility" in their questions, an NPR employee wrote in an instant-messaging chat accompanying the conversation that the word 'civility' is often used as a cudgel against people of color, calling the language choice "racist."

After the meeting, Shockley filed a human resources complaint against Mr. Lansing, saying his remarks about civility amounted to "dog-whistle racism," according to a person with knowledge of the exchange. The complaint against Mr. Lansing was referred to an outside law firm, which did not recommend any punitive action.

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Yet another lesson in how every revolution sooner or later eats its own.

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LOL.

"Civility" and "objectivity" are racist. Classic CRT bull*****

nortex97 said:

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I know NPR only receives a small amount of its budget from the government but it really doesn’t make sense for taxpayers to give a dime to an openly partisan — and sometimes anti-American (why parrot Iranian propaganda??) — outlet. pic.twitter.com/UIUBOLEtqY

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) March 27, 2025

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I am going to guess "small part of their annual budget from federal tax dollars" is similar to all the "women's services" Planned Parenthood provides, other than abortions.

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If it's only a small amount, then they won't miss it when it's gone.

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Exactly. Defund it. Or if not going to do that, remove all the present staff bent with ideology and reboot its mission with as close to middle types as you can find that you can truly have something that criticizes the Dem and Left side as much as the Repub and Right side. Ironically, since NPR is not focused on profit, it could actually try to cater to accuracy rather than clicks and ratings and finally test that claim there is no demand for good news.

She is so smug and very forgetful (early dementia like her hero Ol' Joe?)

NPR CEO: "I have never seen any political bias."pic.twitter.com/WDM9hqM8id

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) March 26, 2025

They literally laugh at her

Who?mikejones! said:

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NPR CEO: "I have never seen any political bias."pic.twitter.com/WDM9hqM8id

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) March 26, 2025

They literally laugh at her

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Is that current, from this month like the tag implies?

Makes the above even truer easier: Fire the entire "current editorial staff" especially her, and get some fresh blood in from both sides of the aisle and make NPR middle news, not a propaganda and filterer of information.

All of their hit pieces are always pro liberal policy or anti conservative policy. I listen to them at least once a day…. "Know thy enemy"