Can someone who donated to an organization spreading falsehoods about stolen elections be the CEO of a credible news organization?
Imagine what it would say about ABC News’ 2024 election coverage if it were discovered network president Kim Godwin had donated to Donald Trump after Jan. 6.
The journalism world would have a fit, and Godwin wouldn’t last a day in the job.
Well, now the Louboutin is on the other foot.
National Public Radio CEO Karen, er, Katherine Maher is a donor to Stacey Abrams’ election-denying political action committee, Fair Fight.
Abrams, you may recall, spiraled down a conspiracy rabbit hole after losing Georgia’s 2018 gubernatorial race.
Maher donated $500 to Fair Fight PAC in 2020, her second-largest donation among 19 to Democrats and their allies between 2016 and 2022, as I reported for The Center Square.
This was before she became NPR’s CEO.
That donation came after:
Abrams refused to concede the governor’s race (she never did);
Abrams concocted false allegations about voting machines switching votes;
Abrams’ PAC filed a bogus lawsuit contesting the election.
The lawsuit was eventually dismissed, and Fair Fight was forced to pay the state’s legal fees.
The double standard here is shocking.
After Trump’s lawyers made similar election-machine allegations and fared equally poorly in court, their credibility was shattered.
But Abrams makes these same transparently false allegations and is worthy of a donation from someone as prominent as the then-Wikimedia Foundation CEO?
https://nypost.com/2024/04/18/opinion/npr-chief-katherine-maher-funded-stacey-abrams-election-denial/