NPR needs a serious critique not a politically charged parting shot

‘Something else that needs to be acknowledged is the … descent of the Republican party into dysfunction and cult-like obeisance.’ Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP

It took only days from Uri Berliner’s publishing his fiery essay about his employer, NPR, to his suspension, to his resignation in a blaze of bad-faith glory.

“You knew the martyrdom was coming,” was how journalist Issac Bailey put it.