>> jesse: just a week after exposing his own company for it's liberal bias, npr whistleblower uri berliner quit. after this new ceo suspended him without pay. berliner says i cannot work in a newsroom where i'm disparaged by a new ceo whose divisive views confirmed the very problems at mpr eyesight in my free past -- free press essay. and who is she, katherine maher? and anti-trump white guilt thing enthusiast breaking her silence. >> i read the letter and never had the chance to meet him personally and i wish in some ways that i had had the chance so we could have talked about what his concerns were. people come from all sorts of backgrounds, they have different lived experiences but they come to the table to do the work and uphold journalistic ethics and integrity. are we covering the stories from a wide enough variety of perspectives? is it reflected in how well the audience feels served? do we have a wide enough
NPR is facing both internal tumult and a fusillade of attacks by prominent conservatives this week after a senior editor publicly claimed the broadcaster had allowed liberal bias to affect its coverage, risking its trust with audiences.
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America has always had a tortuous relationship with the media. “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press,” Thomas Jefferson observed. In 2020, a Gallup/Knight Foundation poll found that 81% of Americans believe the media is “critical” or “very important” to democracy.