NPR Editor Responds After Staffer Alleges Ideological Bias, Claim Seized by Conservatives
• NPR editor Edith Chapin said she does not want bias accuser Uri Berliner to become a “martyr”
• Berliner alleged NPR has an “absence of viewpoint diversity” and promotion of a “progressive worldview”
• Berliner said NPR's uniform staffer beliefs have affected and harmed its reporting and trustworthiness
• Prominent conservatives have seized on Berliner's claims to attack NPR
• Some NPR staff disagreed with Berliner over lack of ideological diversity and said more people of color would improve journalism