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 … Continue reading Flash: Uri Berliner Quits NPR (Cabbage Wins)
How have the mighty fallen! When I was a kid being raised Catholic, the handbook for my “spiritual formation” (aka indoctrination) was arranged as a series of questions and answers. In early editions, there were as many as 1400 questions. I didn’t actually read much of it, but listened to and repeated more, and still … Continue reading In Baltimore, It’s Not Only a Bridge That Collapsed: The Catholic Church Has Too
AP News: NPR suspends editor who criticized his employer for what he calls an unquestioned liberal worldview NEW YORK (AP) — National Public Radio has suspended a veteran editor who wrote an outside essay criticizing his employer for, in his view, journalism that reflects a liberal viewpoint with little tolerance for contrary opinions. Uri … Continue reading NPR Suspends Internal Critic
[NOTE: This prominent article mentions Quakers 12 times, 11 times favorably. What do Friends think of that?]] Washington Post They quit liberal public schools. Now they teach kids to be anti-‘woke.’ By Hannah Natanson — April 15, 2024 Kali Fontanilla used to teach public school in California. Now she leads her own online Christian … Continue reading They’re Making an (Anti-Woke) Example of Quakers in their “Christian” School:
There’s a purple cabbage in my fridge. Cabbages will last pretty long if they are kept cold. But I plan to take it out one day soon, chop it up, then cook it with onions in a simple but delectable recipe I learned from my late lamented next door neighbor, Ms. Hazel. It’s good. But … Continue reading Will NPR’s Internal Dissenter Outlast My Cabbage??