Washington Times Commentary on Boston’s NPR Station
An April 18 commentary by CAMERA staffer Myron Kaplan documents the lopsided panels on "The Connection," hosted by Dick Gordon and produced by Boston University's WBUR, an NPR affiliate.
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UPDATED: CAMERA Staff, Members Prompt NPR Correction
CAMERA staff and members prompted an NPR correction concerning the extent of destruction incurred by the Jenin refugee camp in the 2002 Israeli operation.Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin discusses the error and correction on the network's Web site. A CAMERA staff member provided NPR with a European Union statistic from a United Nations report disproving McCarthy's claim that the camp had been "largely destroyed." Jeffrey Dvorkin's March 24 commentary follows:
CAMERA Obtains Correction at NPR
At CAMERA's urging, NPR corrected its inaccurate February 28 statement that an Israeli couple had been murdered near the "settlement of Meitar." The town of Meitar is located fully within Israel, just south of the Green Line.
CAMERA Obtains Correction at NPR
NPR has corrected its inaccurate statement of January 26 that Israel has "the world's fourth-largest army."
Suicide-Bomber Chic and More at NPR
NPR Smears Israel with Skewed Charges
Aggressive bias continues at NPR, America's foremost publicly-funded radio network, with lopsided time afforded Israel's detractors. Unsupported and anecdotal charges of Israeli misconduct are routinely aired without any balance or counterpoint. Partisan groups critical of Israel are characterized euphemistically as neutral champions of "peace" and "human rights."
NPR’s Bias (And a $200 Million Windfall)
News that McDonald's heiress Joan Kroc has bequeathed $200 million to National Public Radio comes at a time when, unfortunately, the network continues to purvey distorted and agenda-driven Middle East coverage.
CAMERA Op-Ed: On the Oslo Anniversary, NPR as Usual
NPR Tortures the Truth to Malign Israel
National Public Radio does it again, falsely charging that under Israeli law confessions extracted under torture are admissible, when the reality is that Israel has even tougher protections against such abuses than does the United States.
UPDATED: NPR’s Little Cover-Up
NPR's Terror Problem, published recently on National Review Online, documented National Public Radio's refusal to use any form of the word terror in reporting recent murderous attacks by Palestinians against Israelis, despite the network's regular use of the terror word in reporting the recent al-Qaeda attacks in Saudi Arabia and Morocco. Now the publicly-funded network has been caught in an embarrassing cover-up on the issue.