It hasn't been a good week for NPR. The once somewhat respected "news outlet" was taken to task by one of its current editors for its systemic bias and eagerness to censor stories on behalf of the far left. 

READ: NPR Insider Tells All About News Outlet's Incredible Bias, Various Story Cover-Ups

Uri Berliner detailed in his write-up how NPR has suppressed and skewed stories, including those involving the Hunter Biden laptop, COVID-19 origins, and the Russian collusion hoax. At the center of the outlet's dramatic shift from generic left-wing bias to full-on rabid activism was an aggressive DEI push spawned by the George Floyd riots. 

NPR forcefully defended its obsession with "diversity" in a response to Berliner, claiming that it allows more nuanced and varied views of the news. In reality, it has turned the outlet into an echo chamber of like-minded radicals because as I explained in my piece on the matter, DEI is self-selective. Those hired as a result of it inevitably support it and the far-left ideology that backstops it.

Which brings me to NPR's new CEO, Katherine Maher. She's now facing backlash for several posts she made relating to the aforementioned George Floyd riots. 

The head of NPR is getting dragged over the second post in this 2020 thread that basically says *looting meh*

But the whole thread is instructive pic.twitter.com/jGIbhceigJ

— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) April 14, 2024

Is it any wonder NPR is in the situation it's in, with declining viewership, financial hardship, and its credibility in the trash? The old CEO ran the outlet off a cliff with far-left bias so the response was to go out and hire and even more radical activist to lead the organization. 

In her posts, Maher decries that CNN would cover the destruction caused by the George Floyd riots. She then goes on to justify them.

I mean, sure, looting is counterproductive. But it's 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.

It takes a special kind of degenerate to believe that the criminals who looted and then burned down stores in the summer of 2020 were doing it out of righteous anger about injustice from the 1800s. No, they did what they did because they were criminals taking advantage of an unrelated situation for personal gain. No one stealing shoes and televisions cared about George Floyd or "systemic racism." They cared about stealing shoes and televisions. 

Maher even went so far as to repeat a ridiculous trope about insurance.

Also to be clear, I'm not conflating provocateurs with protesters. Instead, saying this should not be the thing anyone sheds a tear over. Cheesecakes are insured; the right to be black and breathe is without measure.

This mental titan was just handed the keys to a partially federally-funded new outlet, yet she doesn't even understand how insurance works. For one, when someone's store is burned to the ground by looters, they suffer immense personal and financial loss, even if everything is eventually rebuilt. Of course, in the real world that the NPR CEO apparently doesn't inhabit, insurance doesn't cover everything, and any claim results in higher premiums. 

The lack of care Maher shows for the victims who lost everything due to the George Floyd tantrums is shocking and disgusting. It also perfectly illustrates why NPR is a dumpster fire. Instead of changing course, the outlet keeps doubling down on far-left insanity. For that, it will continue to shrink into obscurity.