Katherine Maher, the embattled CEO and President of National Public Radio, bailed on testifying before Congress today in a hearing to examine the bias of the network. 

Surprise, surprise. She had a "scheduling conflict" but promised to testify at some unspecified date. Perhaps in 2027, or maybe 2132. 

Maher has been at the center of a controversy over how insanely biased NPR has become. It has always been biased, of course, but in recent years, it has moved to the Left of Karl Marx—a particularly smooth-talking Karl Marx, I would have to admit. 

NPR head a no-show at House hearing on left-wing bias at taxpayer-funded news outlet https://t.co/PDgREnVadd

— The Washington Times (@WashTimes) May 8, 2024

Controversy exploded after Uri Berliner wrote in The Free Press that the organization became obsessed with destroying Donald Trump and with identity politics, to the point that NPR gave up reporting and became little more than a propaganda outlet. 

Welcome to the club, Uri. NPR has been a cesspool for decades. It just became more obvious in recent years. 

Maher herself became the center of the controversy when old tweets of hers were dug up, exposing her own radical politics and eagerness to censor others. There was some really damning stuff in there. And her admissions of manipulating Wikipedia entries to shape a narrative were particularly damning, given that NPR pretends to be an objective news organization. 

NPR CEO Katherine Maher:
-Wikipedia editors aren't focused on finding truth
-Truth isn't where to start when settling disagreements
-"Each of you has your own truth and it's probably a good one"

She ran wikimedia. She runs NPR. This is who decides what information you get to see pic.twitter.com/CHEKJpTF2B

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) April 17, 2024

Telling people that truth isn't important makes a news organization's CEO look pretty bad. Proudly proclaiming that you are frustrated that the First Amendment limits your ability to be a tyrant is a worse look yet, except to every liberal, I suppose. 

EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Maher says the "the number one challenge" in her fight against disinformation is "the First Amendment in the United States," which makes it "a little bit tricky" to censor "bad information" and "the influence peddlers" who spread it.

NPR's censor-in-chief. pic.twitter.com/0vY6hIpbmO

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 17, 2024

Maher is almost a parody of an AWFL, signaling her own weird sense of virtue every time she could. It is like an obsession with her. 

Avoiding Congressional testimony would be a smart move if she can postpone the confrontation until after the issues blow over, but I doubt she can. Congress has the power of the purse, and $91 million slated for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a big stick to wield. 

No doubt the MSM will insist that this is all a right-wing witchhunt, unlike the multiple trials of Donald Trump which are 100% about the rule of law and 0% about destroying Donald Trump. What else could explain Congress' doing its oversight duty?

The media's credibility has cratered, and in a normal world that would lead to the collapse of the enterprise. But instead it is both the cause and the result of narrowcasting to an audience that wants to be deceived. Newspapers are having a difficult time navigating the new landscape, but an organization like NPR will likely survive and even thrive. 

Liberals want to be lied to, and NPR does it in reasonable-sounding and lovely dulcet tones. 

But with any luck, they will do it without taxpayer money. 

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