Fair reporting on the Israel-Hamas war
There's been a lot of public conversation this past week about whether NPR's attachment to bringing diverse voices onto its staff and airwaves is a good thing or a bad thing.
This current debate arose in reaction to a column last week written by a frustrated NPR editor who claimed that NPR's embrace of diverse perspectives has gone too far. NPR responded with a defense of its journalism, a defense of its mission and a few well-crafted volleys.
Among his claims, senior business editor Uri Berliner, who resigned yesterday, asserted that NPR is biased against Israel. Since that's the charge that has dominated our inbox for the last six months, I responded in a column, where I ask: Should the news coverage of this war be proportional to the number of civilian deaths? You can read it here.
Below, we also respond to two audience letters. In the first, an NPR reader is frustrated by some missing details in
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