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Saul Loeb/AFP via GettyA day after news of his suspension became public, NPR senior business editor Uri Berliner resigned from the network over the organization’s rebuke of his complaints of its culture and its CEO’s past criticisms of former President Donald Trump.“I respect the integrity of my colleagues and wish for NPR to thrive and do important journalism,” Berliner wrote in his resignation letter to CEO Katherine Maher, which he shared on X. “But I cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged by a new CEO whose divisive views confirm the very problems at NPR I cite in my Free Press essay.”Berliner was suspended last week for not seeking approval for writing his April 8 column in the Free Press. The five-day suspension was without pay, according to NPR.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Getty/Bill ClarkNPR suspended senior business editor Uri Berliner last week after his salacious column alleging his workplace’s adoption of liberal values has alienated Americans and broken trust with the public radio organization’s audience.Berliner confirmed his five-day suspension to NPR on Monday, telling its media reporter that NPR’s top brass chastised him for not seeking approval before penning his Free Press column last week. The suspension, which began on Friday, is without pay and was labeled as a “final warning.”Berliner admitted he had not gotten approval from NPR brass to write the column, but he did get approval for a TV appearance on NewsNation. His follow-up interview with The New York Times also went without approval—as did Berliner’s interview with NPR confirming his suspension.Read more at The Daily Beast.

ABCNew Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu spent the past year criticizing his fellow Republican Donald Trump, saying repeatedly how Trump brought doom to the GOP and faced “numerous investigations and continues to peddle the conspiracy theory that he won the 2020 election,” as the governor wrote in a June 2023 column.On Sunday, however, Sununu sought to let bygones be bygones—an insurrection, a potential criminal conviction, and continued election-denying be damned.Sununu joined ABC’s This Week on Sunday, where moderator George Stephanopoulos pressed the governor on his about-face in supporting the twice-impeached former president. He noted how Sununu, who endorsed Nikki Haley in the primaries, said in January 2021 that Trump’s rhetoric and actions led to the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection and asked him how he could continue to support Trump despite that.Read more at The Daily Beast.

CNNSen. John Fetterman (D-PA) pushed back on Sunday against President Joe Biden’s reported warning to Benjamin Netanyahu that the U.S. would not join in an attack against Iran, repeating his monthslong refrain that the U.S. should unconditionally support Israel. “It’s astonishing that we are not standing firmly with Israel,” Fetterman told CNN’s Jake Tapper on State of the Union. “There should never be any time for conditions—all of that when a nation can launch hundreds of drones towards Israel—and I’m not going to be talking about conditions ever.”Tapper asked Fetterman whether he agreed with Biden’s decision to tell Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to “take the win” for intercepting Iran’s missiles and drones, and his discouragement of an Israeli response, as reported by Axios and others. Fetterman said that, while he still supported the president, he disagreed with Biden and urged him to maintain full-throated support for Israel.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Saul Loeb/AFP via GettyNPR struck back on Tuesday at its senior business editor Uri Berliner’s lengthy screed alleged his own outlet has sacrificed journalistic values and adopted progressive views on issues that have alienated Americans.“I and my colleagues on the leadership team strongly disagree with Uri’s assessment of the quality of our journalism and the integrity of our newsroom processes,” NPR Editor in Chief Edith Chapin wrote to staffers in a memo, which was first reported by The New York Times. “We’re proud to stand behind the exceptional work that our desks and shows do to cover a wide range of challenging stories. We believe that inclusion—among our staff, with our sourcing, and in our overall coverage—is critical to telling the nuanced stories of this country and our world.”NPR declined to comment beyond Chapin’s letter, which was first reported by The New York Times.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Fox News/screengrabThe March jobs report may have exceeded economists’ expectations, but because some jobs went to migrants, it inevitably became Fox News fodder for Maria Bartiromo and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH).Vance appeared on Sunday Morning Futures on Sunday, where he railed at the idea that “foreign-born” workers are taking “a lot of that net job growth” from Americans. He then said, in the same breath, it was a “disgraceful commentary” that President Joe Biden could commend an economy that was benefiting “illegal immigrants more than American citizens.”“That is just astounding, Senator,” Bartiromo told Vance. Bartiromo did not push back on Vance’s equation of foreign-born people—which could include U.S. citizens through naturalization, legal migrants, foreign students, and refugees, according to the U.S. Census Bureau— to undocumented immigrants.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Terry Wyatt/WireImage/Ashok Kumar/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights ManagementMorgan Wallen fans took a moment during his Indianapolis concert on Friday to boo Taylor Swift after the singer had a little fun noting his accomplishment in selling out a stadium.Wallen told his crowd at Lucas Oil Stadium that the show was the “single most attended concert in the history of this building, and we’re the first to do it for two nights in a row.”“I’m going to say that until Taylor Swift comes to town,” he joked to the crowd, according to a video on TikTok, prompting the stadium to erupt in boos and jeers. He tried to tamp the ire down, noting that the crowd “didn’t have to boo,” but he then noted his appreciation for the crowd’s favored enthusiasm.Read more at The Daily Beast.

ABC/screengrabDays after seven World Central Kitchen humanitarian workers were killed by Israeli troops, chef José Andrés condemned Israel’s war in Gaza as a “war against humanity itself” as he called for an independent investigation into the attack.“It’s been six months of targeting anything that seems moves,” Andrés told ABC’s Martha Raddatz in an interview that aired Sunday, the six-month anniversary since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel that ignited the war. “This doesn’t seem a war against terror. This doesn’t seem anymore a war about defending Israel. This really, at this point, seems a war against humanity itself.”A visibly emotional Andrés told Raddatz he was still processing the brutal attack on the humanitarian convoy, which had coordinated its route with the Israel Defense Forces before the IDF struck it three times on Tuesday. He said the troupe of workers had followed every proper procedure before their attack, including using marked, armored cars, prompting even more confusion on why they were hit.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Fox NewsMaria Bartiromo didn’t even bother to wait for the 2024 election to pass before suggesting it could be stolen.During an on-air conversation Wednesday morning with Republican National Committee chairman Michael Whatley, the MAGA loyalist Fox Business Network host suggested President Joe Biden can’t reasonably expect to win the 2024 election when his policies don’t seem to resonate with voters. She highlighted Wall Street Journal poll that found Donald Trump leading Biden in multiple swing states, using the question as a set-up to boost a new conspiracy theory about Democrats being forced to manipulate the election in order to help the president win re-election.“How does Biden win?” Bartiromo asked the RNC chairman. “Republicans are talking about the potential of an election that is tampered with. Republicans are warning there is a Biden order—executive order—which allows illegal immigrants and felons to vote.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Thomas Koehler/Photothek via GettyThe Israeli parliament passed a bill on Monday allowing it to shut down Al Jazeera’s news operations in Israel, a decision the White House labeled a “concerning” restriction of press freedom.The bill, which passed 71-10, paves the way for Israel to shut down foreign news outlets it deems a security risk—a move widely viewed as targeting Al Jazeera. Israel has blasted the Qatar-based outlet as a propaganda arm for Hamas in Gaza, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the organization on Monday of aiding Hamas terrorists during the Oct. 7 attack.“Al Jazeera harmed Israel’s security, actively participated in the October 7 massacre, and incited against IDF soldiers. It is time to remove the shofar of Hamas from our country,” Netanyahu wrote on X. “The terrorist channel Al Jazeera will no longer broadcast from Israel. I intend to act immediately in accordance with the new law to stop the channel’s activity.”Read more at The Daily Beast.