Just heard (3:57 PM EDT 04-17-2024
Uri Berliner, a dissident 25-year employee at NPR, quit today, publishing on Twitter/X a short, angry statement. The full text of his posted letter is:
As reported here (and in many other media outlets, Berliner published a Substack article on April 9, calling out what he said was an excessive devotion by network executives to “woke” ideas and practices, which were, he suggested, sapping the network’s journalistic credibility and contributing the recent decline in listenership and fundraising.
Edith Chapin, NPR Senior Vice President, Editor in Chief and acting Chief Content Officer, issued a rebuttal to NPR staff.
Much punditry ensued, which we have not followed closely. And then on April 16, Berliner was suspended for five days.
NPR has not yet made any comment; but this is a developing story.
In an echo of a somewhat parallel kerfuffle in the British government, involving Prime Minister Liz Truss, whose controversial tenure lasted only 44 days, a London newspaper set a timer up near a head of lettuce, and predicted the lettuce would last longer than Truss’s remaining time in office. 
This blog pointed to a cabbage, and raised a similar question about which would last longer.
It appears the cabbage won the contest.
But has it really ended?
Anytime that we, and that includes Quakers, focus more on concepts than on the suffering of those in need, we have already crossed the line that marks the divide between intellectual concepts and where all the major religions lead us.
We are one in Spirit and on warring islands in sophomoric intellectual debates.