NPR
New National Poll: Public Expects Higher Standards from NPR and other Publicly-Funded Broadcasters
Seventy-three percent of the general public expects National Public Radio and other publicly-supported broadcasters to be held to higher standards of balance and objectivity than commercial news outlets, according to a public opinion survey conducted for CAMERA by the polling firm Luntz Maslansky Strategic Research. And 70 percent of daily NPR listeners agree that the network should be held to the higher standards.
Covering Up for NPR
As a federal corporation reconsiders NPR's objectivity, leading newspapers ignore studies showing bias
CAMERA Responds to Prof’s CPB Smear
A CAMERA letter redresses errors and distortions published in the Forward about NPR, CPB and CAMERA.
CAMERA Studies of NPR Coverage
NPR’s Robert Siegel Reacts (Badly) to Bias Charge
NPR Host Robert Siegel responded angrily to criticism of his coverage in a
column by Andrea Levin that ran in the Jerusalem Post and was later circulated
by IMRA, Independent Media Review and Analyis. Name-calling and insults
featured in his rejoinder. The exchange follows:
NPR Wants it Both Ways
NPR News has the staff and financial wherewithal to produce coverage meeting journalism's highest standards, according to its president. Since its Arab-Israeli reporting chronically fails to do so, Congress and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ought to find out why.
NPR Ombudsman Dodges Listener Query
NPR describes ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin as "the public's representative to National Public Radio, serving as an independent source of information, explanation, amplification and analysis for the public regarding NPR's programming." But when an NPR listener contacted the ombudsman on March 21, 2005 for comment on a column by CAMERA Director Andrea Levin about NPR's continuing tilt toward Arab positions, he was met with obfuscation and insults.
Another NPR Winter of Distortion
As sure as the calendar moves toward spring, National Public Radio stations turn to a fresh season of fund-raising. For listeners wondering about the status of the network's longstanding bias against Israel, a snapshot of coverage in early 2005 offers few signs of positive change. Instead, the tilt toward Arab positions continues. Sloppiness with factual precision is still commonplace.
The NPR Switch
NPR reporters are once again routinely misrepresenting the statements of Israeli spokesmen, inserting the term "militant" where the speaker has actually said "terrorist."