NPR Suspends Editor Who Criticized its Progressive ‘Groupthink’ Direction

Katherine Maher, NPR’s new CEO, responded by calling his critique “profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning.”

The headquarters for National Public Radio, or NPR, is seen in Washington, on Sept. 17, 2013. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

A National Public Radio (NPR) editor who criticized the news organization’s progressive ‘groupthink’ direction has been suspended without pay.

This past week, Uri Berliner, the senior business editor for NPR, wrote a piece for The Free Press in which he admitted that NPR has become radically progressive, with journalists as activists telling people what to think instead of letting the “evidence lead the way.”