Has he been fired? I thought I read that NPR suspended him for a week for violating some 'no interviews without permission' policy.

He resigned after they suspended him.

His career at NPR ended the day he posted the article. It just took about a week to make it official.

well, at least we still have Nina Totenberg.

That smirk shrieks toxicity.

The follow-on tweet (are they still called tweets?) has a clip from an interview she gave a couple of days ago.

The interviewer serves up a easy strawman for Maher to knock down: "The crux of the essay is that, he argues that, NPS has lost its culture of curiosity".

What a crock of sh*t. As anyone who read his article knows, the "crux" of it was that NPR began jettisoning its objectivity years ago, and in the aftermath of George Floyd's death, NPR went completely off the rails and stopped reporting and became an "agent for change".

https://stephenheins.substack....r-for-25-years-heres

Berliner:

"An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR, and now, predictably, we don’t have an audience that reflects America."

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"Floyd’s murder [sic], captured on video, changed both the conversation and the daily operations at NPR. Given the circumstances of Floyd’s death, it would have been an ideal moment to tackle a difficult question: Is America, as progressive activists claim, beset by systemic racism in the 2020s—in law enforcement, education, housing, and elsewhere? We happen to have a very powerful tool for answering such questions: journalism. Journalism that lets evidence lead the way. But the message from the top was very different. America’s infestation with systemic racism was declared loud and clear: it was a given. Our mission was to change it."

She's a toaster...

Christofer Rufo is a national treasure, his investigations into CRT within American academia is stunning. This more recent project of his, has unearthed quite the treasure-trove of postings by Maher; click on link and see.

I believe Bill Maher recently referred to her as a real-life character from the TV show Portlandia. She is the living embodiment of the affluent, white leftist female who is hyper-focused on upending American institutions and reshaping it into their warped reality.

Quotations from Chairman Maher NPR’s new CEO exemplifies the ideological capture of America’s institutions.

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Katherine Maher has a golden résumé, with stints and affiliations at UNICEF, the Atlantic Council, the World Economic Forum, the State Department, Stanford University, and the Council on Foreign Relations. She was chief executive officer and executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation. And, as of last month, she is CEO of National Public Radio.

Mere weeks into this new role, Maher has stepped into controversy. Long-time NPR senior editor Uri Berliner published a scathing indictment of the self-professed “public” media service’s ideological capture. Rather than address the substance of these criticisms—which will ring true to anyone who has listened to NPR over the past decade—Maher punished Berliner with a five-day unpaid suspension. (Berliner announced his resignation from NPR earlier today.)

But Maher has another problem: her archive of 29,400 tweets.

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The new CEO of NPR, then, is a left-wing ideologue who supports wide-scale censorship and considers the First Amendment an impediment to her campaign to sanitize the world of wrong opinions.

Maher is no aberration. She is part of a rising cohort of affluent, left-wing, female managers who dominate the departments of university administration, human resources, and DEI. They are the matriarchs of the American Longhouse: they value safety over liberty, censorship over debate, and relativism over truth.

Each social gambit is designed for smothering the institution in ideology. Maher says that she knows “that hysteric white woman voice.” She has “done it.” And while she might not be proud of it—she is aware that she has “a big fat privilege pass”—she is willing to do what it takes to move the dictates of conventional left-wing opinion into a position of domination.

It didn’t begin at NPR, and it won’t end there.

Which brings us to Chris Rufo’s latest article, published in City Journal yesterday under the headline “Katherine Maher’s Color Revolution.”
https://www.city-journal.org/a...ers-color-revolution

The sub-headline added, “The NPR boss is a symbol of regime change—foreign and domestic.” Ms. Maher is in her late thirties and childless. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. The problem here is much worse.

Ms. Maher has occupied the news this week for other reasons than her unsurprising infecundity. Yesterday, the Hill ran a story about her headlined, “NPR chief knocks ‘bad faith distortion’ of social media posts.” Maher took over as CEO at NPR last month, arriving at the public broadcaster from her last narrative-shaping job: heading Wikimedia.

Katie Maher’s public interest arose after a longtime NPR editor, Uri Berliner, himself a left-leaning liberal, published an op-ed criticizing NPR’s wildly out-of-control liberal bias. As you might expect, gloating conservative “I told you so’s” and angry liberal hand-wringing followed.

Predictably, Berliner was forced out of NPR last week. But the attention drawn by his op-ed shined the krieglights on NPR’s newest CEO, Katherine Maher. Her vast archive of social media posts framed her profound familiarity with woke left buzzwords and phrases like, “structural privilege,” “epistemic emergency,” “transit justice,” “non-binary people,” “late-stage capitalism,” “cis white mobility privilege,” “the politics of representation,” and “folx,” whatever those things are. Katie enthusiastically supported Black Lives Matter from day one (and still does). She has compared driving cars with smoking cigarettes. And she frets deeply over “toxic masculinity.”

And, she calls Donald Trump a “deranged racist sociopath.”

Katherine’s crazy woke vocabulary became a minor scandal, as NPR pitifully tried to defend itself from Uri Berliner’s claims that it went too woke. But as Rufo kept picking at the scabs of Katherine’s man-hating feminist claptrap, he found another political layer. A deeper, darker layer. A very scary, troubling layer.

It now looks like Katherine Maher is nothing less than a deep state regime-toppling tool on the order of regime-change-queen Victoria Nuland, except younger and under deeper cover. Here’s part of how Rufo described what his research uncovered, which was a pretty bizarre resume for the CEO of what should be a public news agency. Maher’s career involved world travel while working for political nonprofits, and she managed to hit all the color-revolutionary hotspots like they were nightclubs along a bar-crawling gal’s trip:


That’s not all. It’s no wonder she’s had no time for romance. Katie has been a very busy girl. Rufo found her resume jam-packed with surprising security-state connections, connections dripping with portent, because when did the CEO of a government-funded public news agency start needing intelligence agency background?

As ominously as a surprise visit from the State Department’s Top Color Revolution Engineer Victoria Nuland, Katie Maher’s repatriation from the Middle East and her nesting at Wikipedia and NPR is a very bad sign for the United States:

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The promotion of “democracy,” however, does not stop overseas. A Color Revolution has now arrived on American shores, too.

Maher’s résumé provides us with a map of modern power, connecting political revolutions overseas with the cultural revolution here at home. She has been affiliated with key foreign policy and intelligence institutions: the Atlantic Council, World Economic Forum, State Department, World Bank, and Council on Foreign Relations. More recently, she has obtained power at several key strategic assets for the flow of information within the United States: CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, CEO of National Public Radio, and chairman of the board of the encrypted-messaging application Signal.

I always told people not to trust Signal.

One possibly for what she’s doing at NPR might be described in one of her now-deleted blog posts from 2010, in which a very young and very idealistic Katie Maher mused about the role of media in terms of political control. In the scrubbed article, she described how gaining control of African media — in that case, radio — could ultimately provide “control over the state.”

According to Katie, one important key to state control is a “closed society.” It is unsurprising therefore that Maher is also an active and enthusiastic proponent of clamping down on “disinformation.”

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com...rue&utm_medium=email

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Originally posted by chellim1:

According to Katie, one important key to state control is a “closed society.”

Very much the opposite of Soros' Open Society, or is it? Either way, I'm not welcome.

New NPR CEO Gave Ted Talk Asserting “Truth” is a “Distraction”
Paul Joseph Watson
17th April 2024
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Says it’s ‘getting in the way of getting things done’.

https://modernity.news/2024/04...th-is-a-distraction/

https://twitter.com/stillgray/...-is-a-distraction%2F




She should not be under-estimated, a person like her will either flame-out spectacularly or, she'll continue her ascent. Do not be surprised if she get involved with politics with her sights set on POTUS, starting with a cabinet position or, VPOTUS candidate initially, then the big chair in the next cycle. She needs to be discredited and exposed immediately.

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I spoke with some of the people in Maher’s personal orbit, who have a further impression. Maher, in their telling, anyway, is immensely ambitious, calculating, and cold. She rose through the ranks of power and built a network of influential patrons, but never maintained close relationships, with some wondering whether she had any friends at all. She traveled constantly, built her Rolodex, and spoke alongside establishment players, such as former CIA director Michael Hayden, but her personal life was reportedly chaotic.

She had been through a series of relationships, apparently, and always disguised her ambition in the language of ideology—a means to power, rather than an authentic commitment. “That’s Katherine in a nutshell: the privileged white girl with a savior complex,” said one contact with knowledge of Maher’s personal life.

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Yeah, denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

https://x.com/KeenanPeachy/status/1798012003031851466

Hilarious NPR report on swing voter focus groups. All the voters say the economy is terrible, they can’t afford food or medicine, and that Trump will be better on the economy. In the follow up, the reported tells Steve Inskeep that people are desperate and are talking like it’s 1934. Inskeep says “I know we have to listen to these people, but how much of their feelings about the economy is due to them being deceived by misinformation?”

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
She's a toaster...

A toaster?

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Hilarious NPR report on swing voter focus groups. All the voters say the economy is terrible, they can’t afford food or medicine, and that Trump will be better on the economy. In the follow up, the reported tells Steve Inskeep that people are desperate and are talking like it’s 1934. Inskeep says “I know we have to listen to these people, but how much of their feelings about the economy is due to them being deceived by misinformation?”

Yes, the total on the receipts from grocery stores are clear misinformation...

God these people are clearly a reincarnation of the old world propaganda machines in Germany and Russia....

https://www.sfgate.com/news/ar...arkness-19498555.php

Here is the commie version from the local (San Fran) commie paper:

"It’s easy to execute a news dump when you’re one of the scant few remaining places that bother to properly cover news at all. Such was the case earlier this week at Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post, when executive editor Sally Buzbee — who had replaced venerated former news chief Marty Baron — was unceremoniously forced out by Post leadership after just three years at the helm. The news that Buzbee was given the gate arrived via a companywide email late Sunday night, seemingly without much in the way of advance notice down the masthead: Many of Buzbee’s closest colleagues were caught off guard by the move, Vanity Fair reported, as were the rank and file...
After casually dumping on his employees’ work (conveniently eliding any external or managerial factors that surely played a much larger role in the paper’s decreased readership)"...more BS.

That quote from NPR illustrates how out of touch and arrogant the elitists in MSM are. He might as well have said, "Let them eat cake."