1. Statement of Purpose

2. Locations and Times of Protests

3. How Biased is NPR?

4. How to Organize a Demonstration
     Poster Placards

5. News Reports on Previous Demonstration in Boston
    a. THE MEDIA: NPR is losing war of words on Mideast coverage (Boston Globe)
    b. Angry crowd excoriates NPR's Mideast coverage (The Patriot Ledger, Quincy)

6. Links to Other Material About NPR's Biased Reporting

On May 14, 2003, demonstrations will be held outside the offices of NPR affiliate stations from coast to coast to protest NPR's biased coverage of the Middle East.

Individuals and Jewish organizations have met repeatedly with NPR editors and administrators over the course of the last decade, attempting to persuade NPR to cover Israel accurately and fairly. Instead of producing fair and accurate news, NPR has responded by hiring a public relations firm (the DCS Group) to convey to the public the impression that its Middle East coverage is fair and accurate. The public donations squandered on a public relations firm and, this winter, on a national tour during which NPR President Kevin Klose has attempted to persuade Jewish audiences that NPR's demonstrably biased coverage is, in fact, fair, would have better been spent on examining and removing the bias from NPR's news programming. We are not asking for censorship or for a pro-Israel editorial slant, merely for NPR to cover the Middle East without bias. Since meeting with NPR officials has not persuaded them to cover Israel fairly, we believe that friends of Israel are justified in withholding donations from a news network that routinely slants its coverage in ways that defame Israel.

Only 10% of the budget of any NPR affiliated station comes from the government; the remainder is donated by the public, by foundations, and by businesses whose names and products are then announced on air. NPR national does not receive government money directly (except for occasional program-specific grants that constitute less than 2% of its budget.) Over half of the national budget is funded by station dues; the remainder comes in from corporate sponsors and foundation grants.

In Boston, we have already taken well over $1 million from a $20 million budget by persuading individuals and businesses to withhold their donations. This is accomplished through our No-Pledge campaign and by a careful effort to persuade businessmen and Jewish institutions to withhold sponsorship until NPR begins to cover Israel fairly. We believe that if donors in other cities withheld a similar proportion of station budgets, NPR would have a significant incentive to reexamine the fairness of its coverage of Israel. Remember that we are discussing voluntary donations now being made by friends of Israel to a news organization that broadcasts reports subtly inimical to the security and continued existence of the Jewish State.

Our immediate goal is to make the public aware that NPR's Middle East coverage is so biased as to be untrustworthy. Too many Jewish listeners react to NPR's coverage by feeling guilty about the way the Jewish State is 'mistreating' the Palestinians. Many others assume that the Middle East is just another situation where both sides are equally at fault. Indeed, it would be difficult for an NPR listener to realize that peace in the Middle East has been blocked by Arab refusal to recognize Israel. In the NPR version of history, it is Israeli "hard-liners" who are the obstacle to peace, not the ongoing Arab refusal to accept Israel's existence. We hope to plant a seed of doubt so that NPR listeners will react to an NPR report by thinking, "Yes, but this station is always biased toward the Palestinian side of the story." We believe that this is both important and achievable.

Links in the table below:

• If the name under "City" is a link, it will bring up a rally notice or press release for that city.
• Clicking on the call letters under "Station" will take you to the home page of that station's website.
• If a building or street name under "Protest Location" is a link, it will bring up directions to the protest location.

State	City	Station	Time	Protest Location
CA	Fresno	KVPR	6:00	3437 W Shaw Fresno, CA
CA	Los Angeles	KCRW	11:00 am	1900 Pico Blvd Santa Monica, CA
CA	San Diego	KPBS	6:00 pm	5200 Campanile Drive San Diego State University San Diego, CA
CA	San Francisco	KALW and KQED	noon	on Market St opposite 101 Market St (note: not at radio stations) San Francisco, CA

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CO	Denver	KFCR	5:15 pm	2249 S Josephine St Denver, CO

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State	City	Station	Time	Protest Location
CT	Fairfield	WSHU	6:00 pm	4200 Park Ave at the Bridgeport/Fairfield town line Fairfield, CT
CT	Hartford	WNPR	6:00 pm	240 New Britain Ave Hartford, CT
CT	New Haven	WNPR	6:00 pm	20 Lincoln Way New Haven, CT

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DC	Washington	NPR National Office	noon	635 Massachusetts Ave NW Washington, DC

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State	City	Station	Time	Protest Location
FL	Miami	WLRN	6:00 pm	172 NE 15th St Miami, FL
FL	Orlando	WMFE	6:00 pm	11510 East Colonial Dr Orlando, FL
FL	Tampa	WUSF	6:00 pm	4202 East Fowler Avenue University of South Florida Campus Tampa, FL

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IA	Des Moines (Ames)	WOI	5:30 pm	Communications Building Iowa State University Pammel Dr, Ames, IA

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State	City	Station	Time	Protest Location
GA	Atlanta	WABE	6:00 pm	740 Bismark Rd NE Atlanta, GA

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IL	Chicago	WBEZ	noon	Federal Plaza at Adams & Dearborn (in front of the Loop Post Office) Chicago, IL (not at station)

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IN	Indianapolis	WFYI	5:30 pm	1401 North Meridian Indianapolis, IN 46202

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State	City	Station	Time	Protest Location
MA	Amherst	WFCR	noon	Hampshire House, U. Mass. 131 County Circle Amherst, MA
MA	Boston	WBUR	5:30 pm	890 Commonwealth Ave Boston, MA

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MD	Baltimore	WYPR	(TBA)	2216 North Charles St Baltimore, MD

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MI	Detroit	WDET	6:00 pm	4600 Cass Ave Detroit, MI

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MN	Minneapolis / St. Paul	KNOW	5:00 pm	45 E 7th St St. Paul, MN

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MO	St. Louis	KWMU	5:00 pm	8001 Natural Bridge Rd St. Louis, MO

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NJ	Newark	WBGO	6:00 pm	54 Park Place Newark, NJ

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NY	Long Island	WSHU (WSUF)	6:00 pm	Suffolk County Community College 533 College Road Selden, Long Island, NY
NY	New York	WNYC	6:00 pm	One Centre St (Saint Andrews Plaza) New York, NY
NY	Rochester	WXXI	noon	280 State St Rochester, NY

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State	City	Station	Time	Protest Location
OH	Cleveland	WCPN	noon	3100 Chester Ave Cleveland, OH
OH	Columbus	WOSU	5:00 pm	2400 Olentangy River Road Columbus, OH

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OR	Portland	KOPB	5:00 pm	7140 SW Macadam Portland, OR

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State	City	Station	Time	Protest Location
PA	Philadelphia	WHYY	noon	Independence Mall West 150 N 6th St Philadelphia, PA
PA	Pittsburgh	WDUQ	5:30 pm	Des Places Language Center Duquesne University Campus intersection of Locust and Stevenson Sts

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RI	Providence	WRNI	noon	One Union Station Providence, RI

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TN	Nashville	WPLN	Sunday May 11 3:30 pm	Sidewalk in front of Centennial Park (across the street from Borders) Nashville, TN

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TX	Houston	KUHF	noon	Outside Central Market 3815 Westheimer Houston, TX

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WA	Seattle	KUOW	6:00 pm	4518 University Way NE Seattle, WA

NPR's Middle East coverage features repeated omissions of fact, misleading lack of context, and sympathetic coverage of Palestinian grievances. This is coupled with dismissive reporting of the difficulties faced by Israel. It adds up to a pattern of distortion.

Although blatant falsehoods have been broadcast, the real problem with NPR's Middle East coverage is an invidious pattern of double standards. NPR has invariably countered criticism of individual, one-sided programs by claiming that its coverage is balanced over time. In response, CAMERA (the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) has undertaken multiple, in-depth studies that have confirmed the severe lack of balance "over time." In three separate studies in less than two years, CAMERA found NPR programming severely skewed, giving substantially more air-time to Arab/Palestinian and pro-Arab speakers than to Israeli and pro-Israel voices and often omitting entirely any Israeli or pro-Israel voice. Here are some details.

September 26–November 26, 2000

After the first two months of the current Palestinian Arab terror war against Israel, CAMERA issued a 32-page report, "A Record of Bias: National Public Radio's Coverage of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Sept. 26-Nov. 26, 2000." Arab and pro-Arab speakers were given 77% more time on the air (in words spoken) than Israeli and pro-Israel speakers. Entirely one-sided programs were commonplace, whether devoted to assailing Ariel Sharon as a "war criminal," to characterizing Israel as a "Jim Crow" nation that should be done away with in its "apartheid" form, or to blaming Israel for excessive violence, anti-American riots in Arab capitals, and erosion of a supposed Arab commitment to peace. There were 41 segments in which only Palestinian/Arab or pro-Arab speakers were heard and just 24 programs in which only Israeli or pro-Israel speakers were heard.

March 27–April 10, 2002

In a ten-day review of all major news and interview programs during a time of unprecedented terrorism, including the Passover massacre of 29 people, the Matza restaurant attack in Haifa that killed 14, and multiple other lethal bombings and shootings, 62 Palestinians or other Arabs were heard on NPR, often expressing bitter accusations against Israel, while just 32 Israelis were interviewed. Numerous anti-Israel speakers, some extreme, were also heard denouncing the Jewish state. Adam Shapiro, notorious for defending Yasir Arafat in his Ramallah compound, was featured in a segment, and Jeff Halper, who advocates the end of Israel as a Jewish state, was heard. Not a single Jewish victim of the terrorist onslaught was mentioned by name, not one bereaved family was interviewed, and not one injured survivor was the focus of a story.

June 1–July 31, 2002

In a two-month review of all major news and interview programs, CAMERA found, again, only 41% of the speakers in Middle East related stories were Israeli or pro-Israel while 59% were Palestinian/Arab or pro-Arab. Even smaller percentages of actual time allotment were given to the Israeli side, which received only 35% in terms of words spoken compared to the Arab/Palestinian's 65%. Segments that excluded any Israeli voice while presenting exclusively Arab or pro-Arab views numbered 29, compared to just 9 in which only Israeli views were heard with no Arab voices.

Partisan Language

According to NPR, the only "moderates" in the Arab-Israeli conflict are Palestinians and other Arabs. In CAMERA's June-July 2002 study, only Marwan Barghouti (now on trial by Israel for his involvement in terrorism), Sari Nusseibeh, Khalil Shikaki, Madi Abdel Hadi, along with Egyptian officials and the government of Saudi Arabia, were termed "moderate." No Israeli or Israeli leader was described as moderate. Israelis were called "hard-line" or "hard-liners." Hamas officials were never described as "hard-line." They were referred to as "Hamas official," "Hamas leader," "Hamas spokesman," or "Hamas founder." The founder of Hamas, one of the world's premier terrorist organizations, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, was termed a "spiritual leader" who is "charismatic" and "popular."

Although various Arab leaders were labeled "popular" or "prominent," including Marwan Barghouti, Sheik Yassin, Sari Nusseibeh, and Hanan Ashrawi, no Israelis were characterized as "popular" or "prominent" (During this time, the New York Times ran multiple articles noting the popularity of the Israeli government.)

NPR's response to documentation of its biased coverage has been to hire a public relations firm (the DCS group) to improve its image. We would all be better served if NPR spent publicly donated money to remove the bias from its coverage.

An Islamic extremist explodes a bomb amidst a crowd of civilians on March 4th, killing more than 20, including himself. Less than a day later another Islamic extremist explodes a bomb on a civilian bus, killing more than 15, including himself.

Parallel stories, but not covered in a parallel way on National Public Radio. In consecutive news segments on the March 5th broadcast of NPR's Morning Edition, the first attack was described as a "terrorist bombing," with "Muslim insurgents" the likely perpetrators. The report offered no explanation why the attack might have occurred, and in particular nothing that might have been construed as justification.

The second attack was reported without using any form of the word terror, and included nothing about who the likely perpetrators might have been, describing them only as "militants." Moreover, the attack, and similar attacks in the past, were implicitly justified as a "campaign against . . . occupation."

Why the gross disparity, with straight news reporting in the first case, and clear advocacy in the second? Of course, the answer is that the first attack was in the Philippines, and was carried out by the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front, while the second attack was in Israel, targeted Israeli civilians and was carried out by Palestinians.

Because Palestinians are virtually a protected class at NPR, the perpetrators of the attack in Israel are described not as Islamic extremists, or Muslims, or even Palestinians, but as "militants," who are said to be pursuing a "campaign against Israeli occupation." The fact that Hamas, which carried out the attack, considers all of Israel to be "occupied" was not deemed worthy of mention by NPR, nor the fact that the Palestinians had rejected at Camp David and Taba Israeli offers to end anything that could reasonably be called an "occupation."

Here are the steps to follow to organize a protest in your community.

1. Go to NPR's "find a station" link (www.npr.org/stations/index.php), enter your city and state, and click on the "Get Stations" button. Go to the Web site of the station by clicking on the "Visit" link for the station. Usually there is a "Contact Us" link from the station's home page that will give you the address of the station's offices. You can also look in your phone book.
2. Decide whether you will hold your rally at noon or late in the afternoon (for example, 5:00 pm or 6:00 pm). Since May 14th is a Wednesday, this will depend upon the location of the NPR station and upon where your protesters will be coming from. If the station is in a downtown location, a lunchtime rally may work for you. If the station is at the edge of town, it may be easier to get a turnout at after work.
3. Contact us with the information below by sending an email message to protest@jat-action.org:
   
   
   • The call letters of your station.
   • The street address where the protest will take place.
   • The time of the rally.
   • The name of the organization(s) sponsoring the rally in your city - if any.
   • The name, phone, and email address of one or more rally organizers.
4. Download support materials from this site (click on the links in the items). They include:
   
   
   • "Statement of Purpose" as a web page or as an Adobe PDF file.
     
   • Designs and Adobe PDF files for poster placards.
   • Here are Adobe PDF files for the recommended flyers and handouts for the demonstrations. They can be mixed and matched. A pair of single-page flyers can be combined on the front and back of a single sheet. To view them, click on the link. To download a file to your computer, click on the link using the RIGHT mouse button, and then in the menu that opens select "Save Target As..." (Microsoft Internet Explorer) or "Save Link As..." (Netscape).
     
     
     • Flyer: "Why We are Protesting Outside NPR"
     • Flyer: "NPR: The Facts"
     • Flyer: "NPR's Track Record"
     • Handout: "How Biased is NPR?" (two pages)
     • Flyer: "NPR Biased News Reporting?"
     • Flyer: "Activists vs. Statistics at NPR"
     • Flyer: "News Censored by NPR" (two-sided)
       front: NPR refusal to report on ethnic cleansing of Jews by Arabs
       back: NPR refusal to report of virulent Arab anti-semitism
   • A press release about the demonstrations.
5. Take the announcement and enter the time and street address where your rally will take place. Many NPR stations print helpful maps or directions for reaching the station that can usefully be included. Send this announcement to members of every synagogue and Jewish organization in your city, and ask them to circulate it. This rally will self-advertise.
6. Don't let fear of a small turnout deter you. This fear is unreasonable because:
   
   
   • This demonstration is self-advertising. The Jewish community is so fed up with NPR's anti-Israel bias that this is truly a case in which "If you announce it, they will come."
   • You do not need a huge turnout to have an effective rally. Because turnouts in the big cities will be large and because rallies are being held in cities from coast to coast, even a small turnout in your city will merit press coverage—and lend important assistance to this nationwide effort to bring serious scrutiny to NPR's prejudiced coverage of the Middle East.
7. Compile a list of all media outlets in your city. This should include every newspaper (including college newspapers, Jewish newspapers, and suburban weeklies), television stations, and radio stations (including the NPR outlet that you will be demonstrating against). All media outlets have Web sites on which they give simple, clear instructions about where to send press releases.
8. Someone has to sign the press release. This is no big deal. If you are a member of an Israel Action Committee, you sign it "American City Israel Action Committee." If you are an individual, congratulations! For the next couple of weeks you constitute the "American City Israel Action Committee". Or use whatever name you choose. After the name of the organizing committee, you must list "contacts," the names and telephone numbers of one or more individuals whom reporters can call with questions. This is no big deal. If you read our single-page handout, How Biased is NPR, you can answer reporters questions. Here is a link to a summary of ideas on How to Talk to the Press about NPR
9. Copy the press release template, type in your contact information, and send it to reach the media outlets in your city on May 12 (early for weekly media).
10. Inform the police that you are organizing a protest rally. You do not need a permit for a rally in which the protesters hold signs and walk up and down the sidewalk. Informing the police is a matter of simple courtesy, since they will wish to arrange their schedules to have extra officers on hand.
11. You can print up placards or encourage demonstrators to make and bring their own. (See our recommended placards by clicking on the following link: poster placards. All it takes is a magic marker. Placards are important. You want lots of them to make the rally look good. Keep in mind that the only news most people will have of this rally is the photo of someone carrying a placard that will appear in the morning paper. With this in mind, when you are making signs remember that we are protesting the fact that NPR gives news biased against Israel. If you come up with a slogan, ask yourself this question: If this is the one legible slogan that runs in a photo in the morning paper, will it convey the message that NPR is giving us inaccurate, unfair news that is biased against Israel?
12. Arrange for someone to take photographs at the demonstration, preferably with a digital camera. Please send us copies of the photographs.

THE MEDIA: NPR is losing war of words on Mideast coverage

By Mark Jurkowitz, Globe Staff, 1/15/2003

The body language said it all.

Sitting together on one side of the stage, leaning into the microphone, were the fiery prosecutors—Philadelphia Jewish Exponent executive editor Jonathan Tobin and Boston University journalism department chairman Bob Zelnick. Seated on the other side, seeming to sag in their seats, were the wary defendants—WBUR-FM general manager Jane Christo and National Public Radio president Kevin Klose.

The near-capacity crowd of about 900 who gathered at Boston's Temple Israel on Monday night for a debate on Middle East media coverage (mostly NPR's coverage) sided largely with the prosecutors. Staunch supporters of Israel, they applauded loudly when Zelnick or Tobin assailed what they saw as anti-Israel bias or shoddiness in public radio's reporting of the Palestinian-Israeli bloodshed.

Yes, Christo and Klose, the latter up from Washington, faced an uphill battle. But rather than wage one, they opted for a kind of patronizing surrender that can only dishearten their allies and invigorate their critics.

The tone of the discussion was set early. While Christo and Klose used their opening remarks to deliver a dispassionate, droning primer on the basic functions of their organizations—call it NPR and WBUR for dummies—their rivals came out charging.

"We are here because the events of the last few years have changed the discussion in the Jewish community ... about news reporting from Israel," Tobin declared. "It's about Israel's survival. ... We have a right to ask why NPR operates the way it does." The crowd cheered.

The battle over public radio's credibility is a serious one. In the past few years, supporters of Israel have effectively targeted NPR as the poster child for egregious anti-Israel bias. WBUR, the local outlet, has lost more than $1 million from underwriters who have suspended funding. The advocacy group CAMERA, or the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, has built a constituency by publishing harsh critiques of NPR's work. And when protesters chant, as they did on Monday night, that "NPR distorts the news, covers up attacks on Jews," it's a sign that animus against public radio is reaching toxic levels.

To their credit, Klose and Christo have sought, via much community outreach, to make peace with their detractors. But Monday's discussion—in which they relied on an unconvincing blend of deference, obfuscation, and condescension—revealed that they don't have a coherent strategy.

At Temple Israel, Christo went so far as to invite her critics to "come into our editorial meetings and listen to them." The invitation strained credulity. Yet when asked a reasonable question about whether those critics had planted the seeds for any stories that NPR might now be planning to do, Klose halfheartedly cracked: "Does Macy's tell Gimbels?" That joke had the effect of falling flat and seeming evasive at once.

Replying to an audience question on whether the BBC's Middle East coverage, which WBUR uses, was balanced or biased, Christo ducked, venturing that it "brings a very valuable perspective."

Most glaringly, Klose made no real effort to stand up for his organization. An intelligent man who seems temperamentally unsuited for spirited debate, he had difficulty speaking in plain, resonant language. Trying to describe how his reporters on the ground respond to a sudden spasm of violence, he talked about drawing "resources ... into immediate sequence."

The closest he came to a defense of what NPR obviously believes is its objective coverage of the conflict was to say that its mission is to seek out "many voices and present many scenes and many agonies to listeners."

If public radio is willing to wage a public battle on this issue, Klose might try a new tactic. He might explain—without semantic gymnastics—exactly why NPR thinks its Middle East journalism is fair and right.

That may not win any converts, but there didn't seem to be any at Temple Israel either. And at least NPR will extend to its detractors the courtesy of leveling with them.

Mark Jurkowitz's The Media column appears on Wednesdays.

This story ran on page C1 of the Boston Globe on 1/15/2003.
(C) Copyright 2002 Globe Newspaper Company.

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Angry crowd excoriates NPR's Mideast coverage

By REBECCA SULLIVAN
The Patriot Ledger

BOSTON - In the packed sanctuary of a Boston synagogue, National Public Radio came under fire for its coverage of the Middle East last night.

A vociferous, standing-room-only crowd at Temple Israel on Longwood Avenue, many wearing stickers reading "NPR lies" and "NPR: No Pledge Radio" listened to NPR president and CEO, Kevin Klose and Jane Christo, the general manager of WBUR in Boston, discuss the station's coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with Bob Zelnick, Boston University journalism department chair, and Jonathan Tobin, editor-in-chief of the Jewish Exponent, a Philadelphia newspaper. Former U.S. Attorney, Donald Stern, moderated the panel.

Tobin criticized the language used in NPR's coverage, focusing on the use of the words "militant" and "terrorist" to describe suicide bombers.

"Militants are people who organize unions, not people who blow themselves up," Tobin said to loud applause.

Tobin also said NPR's and other U.S. media outlets' coverage of the Palestinian suicide bombers differs greatly from the coverage of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.

"After Sept. 11, we didn't receive from our news media glowing portraits of the grief of the bombers' families." he said.

Klose, who was repeatedly yelled at by angry audience members during his remarks, defended his station's coverage, saying reporters use "language that is accurate to the acts. We don't shirk from that."

Zelnick, who covered the Middle East for ABC News from 1984 to 1986, tackled WBUR's airing of BBC broadcasts, which he and Tobin said were flagrantly anti-Israel in its coverage of the Middle East.

But Zelnick said: "I would not deny people the opportunity to weigh their coverage against others."

Protesters at the forum called for NPR listeners to stop pledging money to the nonprofit radio network and distributed a list of corporate underwriters who support WBUR, asking them to cease their funding of the station because of its coverage of Israel.

Since last year, a number of underwriters have ceased their contributions to the station.

Christo said WBUR has seen a drop in pledges, and that she regrets that listeners choose to express their dissatisfaction by withholding their financial support. She encouraged listeners to write, call and E-mail her with their complaints and even visit the station to meet with her.

"I can't do anything unless I know about it," she said.

Klose said NPR covers the Middle East more than any broadcast outlet, and that the station is looking for a fourth Middle East correspondent to provide listeners with more context about the age-old conflict. Klose and Christo also said they welcomed the dialogue and criticism but would not say if the evening's discussion would change NPR's coverage.

Some audience members walked away unhappy with the responses of Klose and Christo.

"The NPR executives sidestepped most of the questions," Martin Idelson of Boston said. Judith Hanson agreed. "I wish NPR had been more direct," she said.

Dr. Bob Rosenthal, a Boston resident who attended the forum, said the issue of media bias is so important it should not be limited to one forum with one news outlet.

"It was informative, but I would like to see this discussion repeated with other members of the news media," he said.

Copyright 2003 The Patriot Ledger

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