Several Senate Republicans are urging National Public Radio (NPR) CEO Katherine Maher to begin a “course correction” following recent allegations by senior NPR editor Uri Berliner that the news radio broadcaster’s credibility has been undercut by political bias and slanted coverage.
Mr. Berliner first went public with his criticism of NPR’s political slant in an essay he wrote for The Free Press on April 9. In his essay, Mr. Berliner—a 25-year employee of NPR, then working as a senior business editor for the radio broadcaster—described a shift away from an “open-minded spirit” in NPR’s radio and online coverage to one that caters to the “distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population,” namely the progressive political left.
