Whether Israel is battling intifada violence, collecting her dead after terror attacks or ceding unprecedented land and power to the Palestinians, tax-supported NPR consistently promotes the Arab agenda. Factual error, distortion, story choice and rhetorical slant all work to tilt the story...
Defying public indignation at their biased coverage of the Middle East, and insulated from reform by the subsidy of tax dollars, National Public Radio reporters and editors continue to disseminate harmfully inaccurate information.
Boasting a constituency drawn heavily from America's best educated and most politically active, National Public Radio enjoys a unique vantage from which to reach and influence policy-makers.
In a number of recent speeches to community and synagogue groups in the U.S. National Public Radio's Jerusalem reporter, Linda Gradstein, accused CAMERA of ignoring NPR's response to CAMERA's criticisms of the network's Middle East coverage, including her own personally written, detailed rebuttal.
National Public Radio has responded in writing to CAMERA's study of the network's coverage during the latter six months of 1991 and has even, finally, done an analysis of its own coverage.
From time to time the CAMERA Media Report presents an extended analysis of the Middle East coverage of a single media outlet. This edition provides the results of a six-month study of National Public Radio and an account of the meeting held by CAMERA representatives with NPR officials regarding the study findings.
NPR's Middle East correspondent, Linda Gradstein, has consistently issued reports colored by her publicly-stated views on the Arab-Israeli conflict - in an interview Gradstein revealed her personal views of the Middle East, which not only reflect an ignorance of history but an extremist political position.
To National Public Radio's Linda Gradstein for her remorseless hectoring of Israel, and her contempt for fact and context. On July 30, 1992, Gradstein focused on Israel's supposedly capricious policy of keeping Palestinian Arab "exiles" waiting when they cross the Allenby Bridge from Jordan to visit family members in the West Bank.
