Great Book to Read Seth Corey, MD , 31 Jan 2002 scorey+@pitt.edu To: "Jeffrey Dvorkin" jdvorkin@npr.org, "NPR cc" CC: "NPR" scorey@pitt.edu Dear Mr. Dvorkin: It doesn¹t surprise me that journalists would rally around Dan Rather. That's why they call it pack journalism. But here is one intellectually honest journalist. I liked the book, and I have urged all my friends to go out and buy it. Since it is on the NY Times bestseller list, media bias has hit a nerve in the American people. You criticized Goldberg's book in your "Your (sic) turn column). You wrote, " But his criticism feels thin and it sounds a lot like TV news itself: long on impressions and short on proof. " Well CAMERA produced an exhaustive two month analysis of NPR coverage. Proof, which NPR denies. Proof like, "The Arab-speakers-only segments were almost twice as numerous (41 to 24) and four times as long (18,321 words spoken on the air versus 4,934)." Proof like "The pro-Arab speakers received 77% more time." Proof like "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-Israeli speakers were heard." Proof which you deny exists. Seth Corey, MD Ps. A suicide bomber is a terrorist! |
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