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And she tried to claim NPR is not biased!

https://www.foxnews.com/media/npr-boss-called-first-amendment-challenge-reverence-truth-distraction

NPR boss once called the First Amendment a 'challenge' and 'reverence
for the truth' a distraction
NPR CEO Katherine Maher's social media posts show a history of
progressive views
By Lindsay Kornick , Hanna Panreck Fox News
Published April 17, 2024 6:44pm EDT

Uri Berliner resigns from NPR after exposing the organization's liberal bias Fox News' Mike Emanuel provides details on former NPR editor Uri
Berliner's statement regarding his resignation.

Controversial videos of Katherine Maher discussing her views on "the
truth" and the First Amendment have resurfaced as the new NPR CEO
continues to face online backlash and scrutiny.

At the Atlantic Council's 360/Open Summit in June 2021, Maher, then the
CEO of Wikimedia which oversees Wikipedia, discussed efforts to push
back against disinformation and the "challenge" of the First Amendment.
She took over at NPR last month.

"The number one challenge here that we see is, of course, the First
Amendment in the United States. [It] is a fairly robust protection of
rights and that is a protection of rights both for platforms, which I
actually think is very important that platforms have those rights to be
able to regulate what kind of content they want on their sites," Maher said.

She added, "But it also means that it is a little bit tricky to really
address some of the real challenges of where does bad information come
from, and sort of the influence peddlers who have made a real market
economy around it."

Katherine Maher
NPR's Katherine Maher speaks during an event. (Harry Murphy/Sportsfile
for Web Summit Qatar via Getty Images)

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She remarked how Wikipedia took an "active approach to disinformation
and misinformation" in response to the coronavirus pandemic and the 2020 election, though she noted that Wikipedia publishers are "primarily men"
with "significant gaps" of knowledge in content about women and
marginalized groups.

Another resurfaced video from an August 2021 TED Talk featured Maher
discussing how Wikipedia teaches "balancing truth and beliefs." She said
trust in the website had increased during a time when public trust in institutions had collapsed. She argued Wikipedia's model worked well, especially in debates over politics or religion.

"In our normal lives, these contentious conversations tend to erupt over
a disagreement about what the truth actually is. But the people who
write these [Wikipedia] articles, they're not focused on the truth.
They're focused on something else, which is the best of what we can know
right now," Maher said.

"That perhaps, for our most tricky disagreements, seeking the truth and
seeking to convince others of the truth might not be the right place to
start. In fact, our reverence for the truth might be a distraction
that's getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things
done," she continued.

Katherine Maher and the NPR building
Maher stepped in as NPR President and CEO in March. (Left: (Photo by
Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Getty Images), Right: (Photo credit should
read SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images))

Maher insisted that her view doesn't mean the truth "doesn't exist" or
"isn't important" but emphasized the existence of "many different truths."

"And so, in the spirit of that, I'm certain that the truth exists for
you and probably for the person sitting next to you. But this may not be
the same truth. This is because the truth of the matter is very often,
for many people, what happens when we merge facts about the world with
our beliefs about the world. So we all have different truths," she said.

NPR DEFENDS EMBATTLED CEO AGAINST ‘BAD FAITH ATTACK’ AS CRITICS UNEARTH
HER FAR-LEFT SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS

NPR defended Maher against "online actors with explicit agendas" on
Wednesday as her old social media posts continue to go viral for
exposing her personal left-wing ideology.

In a 2020 post, Maher is seen donning a Biden for President hat and
saying it was the "best part" of her "get out the vote" efforts. In
another post, she wrote that while "looting is counterproductive," it is
"hard to be mad about protests not prioritizing the private property of
a system of oppression founded on treating people's ancestors as private property."

Katherine Mahers post on social media about looting
NPR CEO and President Katherine Mahers old tweets about looting, her
support for Hillary Clinton and Biden-Harris have resurfaced after she addressed Uri Berliners concerns about NPR in a letter to staff. (
(Photo by Rita Franca/NurPhoto via Getty Images),
Screenshot/X/KatherineMaher)

Maher's political views came out after longtime NPR editor Uri Berliner published a bombshell report blowing the whistle on liberal bias at the organization. After he received a 5-day suspension, Berliner announced
his resignation on Wednesday.

"I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have
worked for 25 years. I don’t support calls to defund NPR. I respect the integrity of my colleagues and wish for NPR to thrive and do important journalism. But I cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged by a
new CEO whose divisive views confirm the very problems at NPR I cited in
my Free Press essay," Berliner wrote in a statement, referring to Maher.

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Lindsay Kornick is an associate editor for Fox News Digital. Story tips
can be sent to lindsay.kornick@fox.com and on Twitter: @lmkornick.


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blagablaga116
17 April, 2024

Left: We want to slant the story - burying aspects that don't fit our narrative, and focusing only on the details WE like. We'll suppress
others presenting information we don't like, and we'll use the DOJ
asking us to suppress it as "cover." And when we don't have a good
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DJ76
17 April, 2024

First there was the "Nuremburg Defense"; "I was just following orders."
Now we have the Jusse Smollett defense, "If it makes conservatives look
bad, who cares if it's true or not?"


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hermamyr
17 April, 2024

I have stopped watching NPR since I noticed that my tax dollars are
being used by their left leaning management to push their liberal
agendas. It was disappointing to hear them constantly bash the
conservative values of the American citizens. Half of the United States
of America still have conserva...

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KRS8888
17 April, 2024

"1A for me, but not for you!"


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dirtgrey11
17 April, 2024

No more taxpayer funds need to go to NPR. I don't care about their
left-wing agenda because I don't listen to them. I've known of the
liberal thinking for years. But, I have never, ever agreed to fund them
through taxpayer dollars. That funding needs to stop immediately. You
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KRS8888
17 April, 2024

demokrapperzapper284
17 April, 2024

Anyone who is reading this should support Senator Marsha Blackburns bill
to cease all Taxpayer funds to NPR. The Senator is attempting to curb
the funding to this Leftist Propaganda Agenda driven Cult.

NPR has lost their way and burned their brand. NPR should not be
supported with Taxpayer's Money....

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Leave_The_Plantation
17 April, 2024

OF COURSE the person they put in charge of NPR doesn't believe in the
1st Amendment ... is anyone, anywhere really surprised.


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ajb50
17 April, 2024

Nah, what the legislation should do is require in the name of equity
that no less than 45% of their staff be registered republicans with
verified donations to Republican candidates.


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