NPR

September 11, 2003

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.
August 22, 2003

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.
August 15, 2003

UPDATED: NPR Discovers Terror in the West Bank

National Public Radio, which routinely calls Hamas suicide bombers "militants" or "activists," rather than terrorists, has finally found some West Bankers it can comfortably refer to with the "T" word. And no, these terrorists are not from Islamic Jihad, or the Al- Aqsa Martyr's Brigades, or the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, or the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ...

August 15, 2003

NPR’s Letter of Protest to CAMERA, and CAMERA’s Reply

Bruce Drake, NPR's Vice President for News, sent a letter to CAMERA on August 9 protesting that a recent article on our website had included a "serious distortion of NPR's policies and practices" regarding which of NPR's Middle East broadcasts are available on the network's website. We do not agree with Mr. Drake's allegation. Below, the relevant section of Mr. Drake's letter, followed by CAMERA's reply:

June 21, 2003

CAMERA Op-Ed: National Public Radio’s Predictable Evasions

Nothing underscores National Public Radio's shoddy Middle East reporting and evasion of accountability quite like its official rejoinders to criticism. News Vice President Bruce Drake replied to a Jerusalem Post column critical of NPR coverage ("National Public Radio Off the Map," May 23, 2003) dodging and obfuscating in familiar style

June 2, 2003

CAMERA Op-Ed: National Public Radio Off the Map

Like deja vu all over again, National Public Radio has covered the release of the road map and surrounding events with the same tilt toward Palestinian interests it displayed for a decade in reporting the failed Oslo negotiations.

May 14, 2003

Lopsided NPR News from Peter Kenyon

Once again, National Public Radio has focused lopsided coverage on Palestinian civilians unintentionally killed during an Israeli incursion into Gaza, minimizing the responsibility of Palestinian gunmen in deliberately endangering their own civilians, while giving only perfunctory coverage to Israeli civilians targeted for death by an Arab suicide bomber.

April 29, 2003

NPR’s Seelye Provides Platform for Arab Regimes

NPR reporter Kate Seelye, a former Manager of Media Relations for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), regularly interviews speakers from the Arab world and routinely gives them a platform for distorted, self-serving claims about Middle East events. Rarely, if ever, does she ask challenging questions or contradict her guests.

April 21, 2003

CAMERA Op-Ed: Media’s Selective Martyrology

Coverage of the story of Rachel Corrie, the American college student and Palestinian advocate killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza while attempting to block a house demolition, followed predictable trends.