Only a week ago, HonestReporting’s readers hauled NPR over the coals for its biased coverage, which included interviewing family members of Palestinian terrorists and allowing one of them to make an unchallenged and false accusation that Israel had shot dead a Palestinian woman.
Not only did NPR issue a correction, but the station’s ombudsman also responded to complainants in a column where she credited HonestReporting for bringing the issue to her attention.
It cannot be a coincidence that NPR’s Emily Harris has subsequently produced a positive broadcast where she interviews Israeli survivors of terrorist attacks, allowing the tragic consequences for their families to be heard.
However, despite all this, NPR still managed to commit a faux pas that was swiftly picked up by HonestReporting.
Of course, the Temple Mount, not the Western Wall, is the holiest site in Judaism. We alerted NPR resulting in the following correction.
The transcript of the broadcast has also been amended to reflect the correction and we commend NPR for taking this remedial action as well as for taking the concerns of our readers seriously enough to produce a program on Jewish victims of terror.
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