NPR bias

I just read (and put on the Churn) this FAIR report:

	http://www.fair.org/activism/npr-israel-quiet.html

I have trouble reading the quotes from NPR that say stuff like, "It's been
calm on the West Bank for the past three weeks" when dozens of
Palistineans were killed during that time.

It *really* burns me up.

Then there's this:

"The unequal treatment of Israeli and Palestinian deaths is a
long-standing pattern at NPR; a FAIR study of six months of the network’s
coverage (Extra!, 11-12/01) found that 81 percent of Israeli
conflict-related deaths were reported, but only 34 percent of Palestinian
deaths. Strikingly, NPR was even less likely to report the deaths of
Palestinian minors killed; only 20 percent of these deaths were reported,
as compared to 89 percent of Israeli minors’ deaths. While NPR was more
likely to cover Israeli civilian deaths than those of Israeli security
personnel (84 percent vs. 69 percent), the reverse was true with
Palestinians (20 percent vs. 72 percent)."

Unbelievable.

I wrote:
	Jeffrey Dvorkin 
	NPR Ombudsman 
	[email protected] 

complaining and saying that unless it changed I would stop giving money to
public radio and urge everyone I knew to stop too.

So, I hereby urge! And I urge you to write Dvorkin.

Actually, I'd love to find a decent congressperson or senater willing to
make a fuss on this. Kill NPR, right wing public radio.

Cheers,
Bijan.