Truth Is Merely A ‘Distraction’ For New NPR CEO
New NPR CEO Ketherine Maher has an interesting and revealing perspective on what constitutes the truth. She delivered a TED Talk in 2021 during which she referred to the truth as a “distraction” that hinders “getting things done.”
This came during her tenure at the head of Wikipedia, a website that famously allows users to edit information and is notoriously unscholarly.
According to Maher, Wikipedia’s model works “when it comes to the hard things, the places where we are prone to disagreement, say politics and religion.”
Wikipedia amazingly permits anyone to edit materials that were previously posted as a form of self-correction, though the expertise of the editor may be doubtful. Through this twisted form of consensus, its proponents believe it arrives at the “truth.”
This truth, according to Maher, is subjective. She told the audience that people engage in conversations that center on what is accurate, but that misses the point.
Maher explained that “the people who write these articles, they’re not focused on the truth, they’re focused on something else, which is the best of what we can know right now.”
The truth, she added, “might not be the right place to start.” Instead, it becomes a “distraction” from the ultimate goal of achieving “common ground” and “getting things done.”
Meanwhile, the uber-liberal outlet suspended whistleblower journalist Uri Berliner for revealing what he described as NPR’s “absence of viewpoint diversity.” He was given a five-day suspension without pay.
Berliner has since resigned.
His piece in the Free Press noted the network’s radical leftist tilt on such hot-button topics as the Russiagate hoax, the origin of COVID-19 and the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.
There was an obvious lack of balanced reporting, and the taxpayer-funded outlet skewed its “journalism” far to the left. Berliner said what most already knew and Maher confirmed — the truth is merely an impediment to pushing for social change and controlling the flow of information.
According to Berliner, Maher is hardly the right person to steer NPR out of the current storm of negative publicity. Many of her far-left social media rants are becoming public, including support for Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden along with worries over “White privilege.”
