NPR Suspended Uri Berliner? Is That All?
According to the New York Post , NPR suspended Uri Berliner, the senior editor who published a bombshell essay a week ago that claimed that the publicly funded outlet has “lost America’s trust” by reporting the news with a left-wing bias. NPR media writer David Folkenflik revealed on Tuesday that Berliner was sidelined for five days without pay beginning last Friday. Folkenflik, who reviewed a copy of the letter from NPR brass, said the company told the editor he had failed to secure its approval for outside work for other news outlets — a requirement for NPR journalists. NPR called the letter a “final warning,” saying Berliner would be fired if he violated NPR’s policy again. This strikes me as remarkably lenient treatment. Corporate policies across the board prohibit employees from contacting the press without authorization from whatever department is responsible for press relations. For much of my career, I was involved in policy writing, and I still more or less carry ...