HonestReporting Secures Correction in Positive NPR Story

In response to recent criticism, NPR produces a positive story on Israeli terror victims. It still, however, needed a correction secured by HonestReporting.

By Simon Plosker October 23, 2015

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.

 

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Of course, the Temple Mount, not the Western Wall, is the holiest site in Judaism. We alerted NPR resulting in the following correction.

 

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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.

With your help, HonestReporting gets results.

 

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Simon Plosker

Simon Plosker

With over two decades of experience in various non-governmental organizations in the UK and Israel, Simon Plosker returned to HonestReporting in October 2022 as Editorial Director having previously been part of the organization’s management team from 2005 to 2020.

Prior to his first spell at HonestReporting, Simon worked in Israel for NGO Monitor, BICOM, and served for a short period in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit. He was Managing Editor of the Geneva-based NGO United Nations Watch for two years before moving back to the frontline defending Israel from media bias.

Simon has a BSoc.Sc in International Studies and Political Science from the University of Birmingham and an MSc in History of International Relations from the London School of Economics. He immigrated to Israel in 2001 from London.

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