What a shameful way for NPR to deal with thoughtful criticism by a long time insider. A news organization that responds to criticism by firing the heretic should wonder whether the orthodoxy it worships has led it to dark places.
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This interview of Uri Berliner by David Folkenflik is incredible. There is a sense that the insider, Folkenflik, is transgressing by talking to the newly excommunicated Berliner. A sample:

'Berliner says he did not get permission from NPR to speak with me for this story but that

Jay Bhattacharya Uri Berliner David Folkenflik I thought the piece by Uri Berliner was brave, clear, honest and necessary. It also clearly seemed to be grounds for dismissal or suspension. My husband works for a large hi-tech company and if he went public with his criticisms of it, he wd be fired - even if they were correct.

Ann Bauer Uri Berliner David Folkenflik Before any such act of honest protest -- satyagraha -- one should count the costs and be willing to pay them, which I assume Uri Berliner has.

As far as NPR, it's one thing for a private firm in high tech to worry about its brand and to control public utterances of employees.

Jay Bhattacharya Uri Berliner David Folkenflik Yeah, it's a tricky area. You'd like NPR to behave the way a land-grant university should...except land-grant universities no longer do. They answer to their donors, patrons and student interest groups.

NPR is a political/ideological imitation of a nonprofit & acted as such.