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May 14, 2003

National Public Protests

A report from Andy Todes on one of the NPR protests today:

Our protest rally took place outside the WHYY building at 6th & Race, just two blocks from the Liberty Bell itself...At 12:20 we got a welcome boost. A bunch of Jewish school kids arrived, swelling the number of protesters to at least 100. A megaphone was passed around and various individuals read out loud a litany of NPR sins -- from their bizarre reporting of Jeningrad (before AND after the truth of the so-called massacre came to light), to their fondness for calling homicide bombers "militants," to their penchant for interviewing grieving Palestinian mothers while totally ignoring grieving Israeli mothers, and so on and so on. ...At one point shorly before I left at 1:15pm, I looked up at the ticker-tape news report running across the WHYY building: "Suicide Attack in Chechnya Religious Service Kills at Least 30 as Truck Bombing Toll Rises to 59." With a wry smile, I wondered what it would've said had a homicide bomber just blown apart a few dozen innocent Israeli men and women and boys and girls: "Bus explodes, killing 22," or something equally innocuous..

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