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Which brings us to Chris Rufo’s latest article, published in City Journal yesterday under the headline “Katherine Maher’s Color Revolution.” The sub-headline added, “The NPR boss is a symbol of regime change—foreign and domestic.” Ms. Maher is in her late thirties and childless. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. The problem here is much worse.
Ms. Maher has occupied the news this week for other reasons than her unsurprising infecundity. Yesterday, the Hill ran a story about her headlined, “NPR chief knocks ‘bad faith distortion’ of social media posts.” Maher took over as CEO at NPR last month, arriving at the public broadcaster from her last narrative-shaping job: heading Wikimedia.
Katie Maher’s public interest arose after a longtime NPR editor, Uri Berliner, himself a left-leaning liberal, published an op-ed criticizing NPR’s wildly out-of-control liberal bias. As you might expect, gloating conservative “I told you so’s” and angry liberal hand-wringing followed.
Predictably, Berliner was forced out of NPR last week. But the attention drawn by his op-ed shined the krieglights on NPR’s newest CEO, Katherine Maher. Her vast archive of social media posts framed her profound familiarity with woke left buzzwords and phrases like, “structural privilege,” “epistemic emergency,” “transit justice,” “non-binary people,” “late-stage capitalism,” “cis white mobility privilege,” “the politics of representation,” and “folx,” whatever those things are. Katie enthusiastically supported Black Lives Matter from day one (and still does). She has compared driving cars with smoking cigarettes. And she frets deeply over “toxic masculinity.”
And, she calls Donald Trump a “deranged racist sociopath.”
Katherine’s crazy woke vocabulary became a minor scandal, as NPR pitifully tried to defend itself from Uri Berliner’s claims that it went too woke. But as Rufo kept picking at the scabs of Katherine’s man-hating feminist claptrap, he found another political layer. A deeper, darker layer. A very scary, troubling layer.
It now looks like Katherine Maher is nothing less than a deep state regime-toppling tool on the order of regime-change-queen Victoria Nuland, except younger and under deeper cover. Here’s part of how Rufo described what his research uncovered, which was a pretty bizarre resume for the CEO of what should be a public news agency. Maher’s career involved world travel while working for political nonprofits, and she managed to hit all the color-revolutionary hotspots like they were nightclubs along a bar-crawling gal’s trip:
That’s not all. It’s no wonder she’s had no time for romance. Katie has been a very busy girl. Rufo found her resume jam-packed with surprising security-state connections, connections dripping with portent, because when did the CEO of a government-funded public news agency start needing intelligence agency background?
As ominously as a surprise visit from the State Department’s Top Color Revolution Engineer Victoria Nuland, Katie Maher’s repatriation from the Middle East and her nesting at Wikipedia and NPR is a very bad sign for the United States:
I always told people not to trust Signal.
One possibly for what she’s doing at NPR might be described in one of her now-deleted blog posts from 2010, in which a very young and very idealistic Katie Maher mused about the role of media in terms of political control. In the scrubbed article, she described how gaining control of African media — in that case, radio — could ultimately provide “control over the state.”
According to Katie, one important key to state control is a “closed society.” It is unsurprising therefore that Maher is also an active and enthusiastic proponent of clamping down on “disinformation.”
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NPR boss Katherine Maher opposed ‘free and open’ approach at Wikipedia: ‘White male Westernized construct’
In an interview that was cited by Rufo, Maher said that the idea of “free and open” was “recapitulating many of the same power structures and dynamics that existed offline prior to the advent of the internet.”
Maher said that the “free and open” approach was problematic because it resulted in the “exclusion of communities and languages” where “the idea of a written tradition is [not] particular [to them].”
She said that “the way in which we ascribe notability which comes from this white male Westernized construct” is how society determines “who matters” and “whose voice is elevated.”
“Radical openness did not end up living into the intentionality of what openness can be,” Maher said.
Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO, scoffed at Maher’s comments about “free and open” Wikipedia, writing on his X account: “That’s literally the point of Wikipedia.”
Larry Sanger, who co-founded Wikipedia alongside Jimmy Wales in 2001, has said that the site can no longer be trusted because it has been taken over by left-wing “volunteers” who cut out news that doesn’t fit their agenda.
Rufo on Wednesday posted another video of comments Maher made during the Atlantic Council’s 360/Open Summit in 2021.