FREE PRESS
I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.
Uri Berliner
April 9, 2024

.. More recently, we have approached the Israel-Hamas war and its spillover onto streets and campuses through the “intersectional” lens that has jumped from the faculty lounge to newsrooms. Oppressor versus oppressed. That’s meant highlighting the suffering of Palestinians at almost every turn while downplaying the atrocities of October 7, overlooking how Hamas intentionally puts Palestinian civilians in peril, and giving little weight to the explosion of antisemitic hate around the world. READ MORE

JPOST Jewish NPR editor resigns after criticizing network for bias on Israel coverage A Jewish NPR editor resigned on Wednesday after the network suspended him for criticizing NPR for becoming narrow-minded and suppressing other viewpoints, including in its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. Uri Berliner, a veteran editor at NPR, published a critique of the network in the Free Press last week, writing that while when he started at NPR there was an “open-minded, curious culture,” that changed in recent years. READ MORE