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NEW YORK CITY – Uri Berliner, the veteran NPR editor who was ousted after penning his bombshell essay about the left-wing takeover of the newsroom, knocked CEO Katherine Maher for breaking the “firewall” that is supposed to separate NPR’s journalism from its business side. Speaking at the Dissident Dialogues festival on Saturday, Berliner revealed that one of the “big factors” …

One North Carolina student is taking legal action against his school district after he was suspended and allegedly branded a racist for using the term “illegal alien” in class. 16-year-old Christian McGhee filed suit against the Davidson County School District after he was suspended for three days from Central Davidson High School in Lexington and forced to miss critical track …

High-stakes climate litigation being pursued across the country and worldwide, purportedly on behalf of children, can be traced to a single, left-wing public interest law firm with big-money backing and ties to longtime progressive activists, Fox News Digital has learned. The Oregon-based firm Our Children’s Trust (OCT), which is classified as a 501(c)(3) public charity, was established more than a …

NBC News’ former “disinformation” reporter has become CEO of the fake news website The Onion. “NEWS: My friends and I now own and run The Onion. I’ll be the CEO,” Ben Collins announced Thursday on X. “We’re keeping the entire staff, bringing back The Onion News Network, and share the wealth with staff. Basically, we’re going to let them do …

EXCLUSIVE – Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, sent a scathing letter to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) grilling the nonprofit that distributes federal funding to scandal-plagued NPR. “I write today to express deep concern about National Public Radio’s (NPR) departure from its stated mission ‘to create a more informed public’ and to ‘distribute programming that meets the highest standards of …

Some of CNN’s biggest liberal stars who were pushed out under previous leadership have been making their return on-air in recent weeks, marking another shift away from a mission to make the network less partisan. It has been nearly one year since CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, canned the network’s beleaguered CEO Chris Licht, who was brought on to …

NPR reprimanded Uri Berliner for violating its policies while appearing to turn a blind eye towards the brazen conduct of Katherine Maher before she stepped into her role as the organization’s president and CEO. Berliner, the veteran editor who penned the bombshell essay about NPR’s liberal bias, was handed a five-day unpaid suspension for not seeking NPR’s permission to appear …

“Real Time” host Bill Maher took swipes at NPR and its “‘Portlandia’ character” boss Katherine Maher following weeks of turmoil in the far-left newsroom. While discussing right-leaning voters’ refusal to back President Biden in the upcoming election, Maher pointed to the dramatic saga unfolding at NPR following the bombshell essay penned by ousted editor Uri Berliner, saying “NPR is to …

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger took aim at his successor, Katherine Maher, whose past comments about free speech have resurfaced since taking over the now scandal-plagued NPR as its CEO and president. City Journal’s Christopher Rufo has been unearthing comments Maher had made during her tenure as executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation. In one clip Rufo shared Thursday morning, Maher …

The dust is still settling at NBC News following the debacle last month over its hiring and firing of former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel, but scrutiny of the Comcast-owned network’s leadership remains, particularly top boss Cesar Conde. Conde, who apologized to NBC staff over the hiring of McDaniel as an analyst after network talent erupted in anger, has …