Overview of controversies involving NPR
NPR
, full name National Public Radio,
[1]
[2]
is a privately and publicly funded
non-profit
membership media organization that serves as a national
syndicator
to 797
public radio
stations
in the
United States of America
.
[3]
Allegations of ideological bias
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Allegations of bias for and against Israel
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NPR has been criticized for perceived bias in its coverage of
Israel
and the
Israeli?Palestinian conflict
.
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
The
Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America
(CAMERA), a pro-Israel American media monitoring organization based in Boston, has been particularly critical of NPR. CAMERA director
Andrea Levin
has stated, "We consider NPR to be the most seriously biased mainstream media outlet," a statement that
The Boston Globe
describes as having "clearly gotten under her target's skin."
[7]
NPR's then-ombudsman,
Jeffrey Dvorkin
, said in a 2002 interview that CAMERA used selective citations and subjective definitions of what it considers pro-
Palestinian
bias in formulating its findings, and that he felt CAMERA's campaign was "a kind of McCarthyism, frankly, that bashes us and causes people to question our commitment to doing this story fairly. And it exacerbates the legitimate anxieties of many in the
Jewish
community about the survival of Israel."
[8]
CAMERA organized a boycott in 2001-2002 which cost member station
WBUR-FM
between $1 and $2 million. The CAMERA boycott also extended to the
New York Times
and
Washington Post
. The Jewish
Anti-Defamation League
and the
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
have both criticized specific NPR reports as unbalanced, but neither accused the news organization of a consistent underlying bias. Other observers have also accused NPR of pro-Israel bias, including
Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
.
[9]
[10]
NPR hired a group to do outreach with both Jewish and Arab communities.
[11]
An outside expert was appointed to perform quarterly self-reviews of its Israel-Palestine coverage from 2003 to 2013, finding "lack of completeness but strong factual accuracy and no systematic bias" and citing reasons why Palestinians were heard on-air less than Israelis, but overall voices from Arab countries were heard more.
[12]
The
2014 Israel?Gaza conflict
brought a fresh round of complaints to the ombudsman from both sides that NPR was not assigning blame to the other side, or that a particular story focused on an event or guest favorable to one side (to which the ombudsman responded that complainants ignored other balancing stories that featured the other side).
[13]
Allegations of elitism and the status quo
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A 2004
FAIR
study concluded that "NPR’s guestlist shows the radio service relies on the same elite and influential sources that dominate mainstream commercial news, and falls short of reflecting the diversity of the American public."
[14]
Further studies published in 2015 by FAIR demonstrate a lack of
diversity
in NPR's
board members
. The study found those occupying board seats of NPR and its
member stations
disproportionately have corporate affiliations such as
investment funds
,
banking
,
consulting firms
and corporate
law firms
with 75 percent of board members falling into such categories, with other non-corporate affiliations being current or former
government officials
,
academia
and the like.
[15]
Seventy-two percent of individuals are non-
Latino
white males. According to NPR, it receives 35% of its funding from local member station dues and fees, 33% from corporate sponsorships, and 13% from grants from non-profits.
[16]
For many member stations, funds for NPR programming dues and fees are raised from listener contributions and grants.
In 2014, NPR acknowledged a lack of cultural and ethnic diversity among guests, viewpoints and topics covered as well as the composition of their newsroom and board members.
[17]
Noam Chomsky
has criticized NPR as being biased toward ideological power and the
status quo
. He alleges that the parameters of debate on a given topic are very consciously curtailed. He says that since the network maintains studios in ideological centers of opinion such as Washington, the network feels the necessity to carefully consider what kinds of dissenting opinion are acceptable. Thus, political pragmatism, perhaps induced by fear of offending public officials who control some of NPR's funding (via CPB), often determines what views are suitable for broadcast, meaning that opinions critical of the structures of national-interest-based foreign policy, capitalism, and government bureaucracies (entailed by so-called "radical" or "activist" politics) usually do not make it to air.
[18]
Study results
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Consumers of information from NPR contend that NPR does its job well. A study conducted in 2003 by the polling firm Knowledge Networks and the
University of Maryland
's
Program on International Policy Attitudes
(
University of Maryland at College Park
) showed that those who get their news and information from public broadcasting (NPR and
PBS
? Public Broadcasting Service) are better informed than those whose information comes from other media outlets. In one study, NPR and PBS audiences had a more accurate understanding of the events in
Iraq
versus all audiences for cable and broadcast TV networks and the print media.
[19]
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Allegations by Uri Berliner
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On April 9, 2024,
The Free Press
published an essay
[21]
by NPR senior business editor
Uri Berliner
in which he criticized NPR for having "coalesced around the progressive worldview". Berliner contended that NPR had lost America's trust by representing only a narrow segment of the U.S. population in its coverage. As well as a general bias, he cited a number of specific issues.
- Heavy coverage of allegations of collusion between Donald Trump and Russia that was then followed by silence on the
Mueller report
's conclusion that there was no credible evidence to support such allegations.
- A declaration that the
COVID-19 lab leak theory
had been conclusively debunked, despite some uncertainty in the scientific community.
- Failure to report on the
Hunter Biden laptop controversy
even after the facts of the controversy had been established.
The essay generated attention, particularly within conservative media; former president Trump argued on
Truth Social
that the federal government should rescind funding to NPR.
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citation needed
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CEO
Katherine Maher
published a memo alluding to Berliner's article without directly naming him, suggesting that some of its criticism was disrespectful and hurtful to staff.
[22]
Following this, Berliner was given a five-day suspension without pay. According to Berliner, the suspension was for failing to secure approval for outside work.
[23]
Controversies
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In 1994, NPR arranged to air commentaries by convicted murderer
Mumia Abu-Jamal
on
All Things Considered
, but canceled them after the
Fraternal Order of Police
and members of the United States Congress objected to the airing.
[24]
Andrei Codrescu comment
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On the December 19, 1995, broadcast of
All Things Considered
, NPR commentator
Andrei Codrescu
reported that some Christians believe in a "
rapture
" and 4 million will ascend to
Heaven
immediately. He continued, "The evaporation of 4 million who believe this crap would leave the world an instantly better place."
[25]
NPR subsequently apologized for Codrescu's comment, saying, "Those remarks offended listeners and crossed a line of taste and tolerance that we should have defended with greater vigilance." Executive Producer Ellen Weiss said the incident would not sever NPR's relationship with Codrescu.
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Juan Williams termination
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On October 20, 2010, NPR terminated Senior News Analyst
Juan Williams
's independent contract
[27]
after comments about Muslims which were referred to as "inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR". Williams' remarks were made on the
Fox News Channel
's
The O'Reilly Factor
where he concurred with statements suggesting that the United States was facing a "Muslim dilemma". He also said, "I mean, look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous." Furthermore, referring to comments made by a Pakistani immigrant who pleaded guilty to trying to plant a car bomb in Times Square, Williams said "He said the war with Muslims, America's war is just beginning, first drop of blood. I don't think there's any way to get away from these facts."
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NPR CEO Vivian Schiller defended NPR's decision by asserting that Williams has a history of making controversial comments in violation of NPR's ethics policy, with commentary expressed on Fox News and in newspaper opinion pieces. He was previously admonished for comments he made about US First-Lady
Michelle Obama
, "she's got this
Stokely Carmichael
in a designer dress thing going. If she starts talking ... her instinct is to start with this blame America, you know, I'm the victim. If that stuff starts to coming out, people will go bananas and she'll go from being the new Jackie O. to being something of an albatross."
[29]
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This was far from an isolated incident, and Williams’ appearances on Fox News had caused repeated problems for NPR over the last few years. Williams had also "been warned several times that [Bill] O’Reilly is a professional provocateur and to be careful."
[31]
Williams and others have said that in firing him, NPR exhibited a double standard by not firing other NPR people like
Andrei Codrescu
for his comment about Christians who believe in a
rapture
and
Nina Totenberg
for her 1995 comments about
Senator Jesse Helms
and
AIDS
.
[32]
[33]
After NPR announced his ouster, Alicia Shepard, NPR's
ombudsman
, said that the firing could have been handled better. She opined that Williams could have been given a chance to explain himself to NPR's management or been suspended pending review of his case. However, she agreed with NPR's decision, saying "the fact remains that NPR must uphold its journalistic standards, which, after all, provide the basis that earned public radio's reputation for quality."
[31]
"Probably the better thing for NPR to have done is to have said 'Juan the situation is not working,'" Shepard said, noting that Williams could have been given a choice: "If he wanted to stay at NPR, he would have to stop doing commentary on Fox News Channel. Or, if he preferred to continue with Fox, he and NPR could part ways." Schiller told an audience at the Atlanta Press Club that Williams should have kept his feelings about Muslims between himself and "his psychiatrist or his publicist". Later, Schiller placed a post on the NPR website "I spoke hastily and I apologize to Juan and others for my thoughtless remark”.
[34]
Although a number of prominent conservatives, including
Jim DeMint
,
Sarah Palin
, and
Newt Gingrich
have renewed long-standing calls that NPR lose federal funding that it currently receives,
[35]
donations from NPR listener-members during NPR's October fundraising drive remained unaffected in the first 3 days.
[35]
FOX News granted Williams a new $2 million, three-year contract with an expanded role at their network. FOX has been heavily promoting the incident "with hourly reports about the controversy on both its news and opinion programs."
[35]
Bill O'Reilly has accused NPR of bias in firing Williams.
[36]
It was determined after an external review by legal counsel that Williams was properly terminated according to the terms of his contract, which gave both parties the right to terminate on 30 days' notice for any reason, and the termination was not the result of special-interest group or donor pressure. The board of directors also adopted recommendations and remedial measures designed to address issues that surfaced with the review, including new internal procedures concerning personnel and on-air talent decisions, and disciplinary action with respect to certain management employees involved in the termination. These measures included
Ellen Weiss
, the Senior Vice President who fired Juan Williams, stepping down on January 6, 2011, under what is believed to be substantial pressure from more senior management, and CEO Vivian Schiller not being awarded her 2010 bonus.
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Ronald Schiller
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In March 2011, journalist
James O'Keefe
sent partners Simon Templar (a
pen name
not to be confused with the
fictional character
) and Shaughn Adeleye
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to secretly record their discussion with Ronald Schiller, NPR's then-senior vice president for
fundraising
, and his associate, the senior director of institutional giving at NPR, Betsy Liley. The NPR executives were misled that they would be meeting with representatives of a self-described
Muslim
group, Muslim Education Action Center (MEAC), that wished to donate money to NPR, "partly out of concern for the defunding process the Republicans are trying to engage in." On the recording, Schiller indicates that he is sharing his personal point of view, not NPR's, saying he'll "talk personally, as opposed to wearing my NPR hat";
[40]
then he contrasted the fiscally conservative Republican party of old that didn't get involved in people's personal and family lives with "the current
Republican Party
, particularly the
Tea Party
, that is fanatically involved in people's personal lives and very fundamental Christian?I wouldn't even call it Christian. It's this weird evangelical kind of move."
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Subsequent analysis of the raw videos showed that the clips were heavily edited to present only one point of view, and that much of the context of the conversation was changed.
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According to NPR, Schiller's comments are in direct conflict with NPR's official position and they called his comments appalling. They also stated that, "The fraudulent organization represented in this video repeatedly pressed us to accept a $5 million check with no strings attached, which we repeatedly refused to accept." A second recording released a couple of days later by O'Keefe showed that after phone and e-mail communications, Betsy Liley checked with senior management and said that although MEAC had been cleared to legally make donations anonymously, additional background information was required before a donation could be accepted, including an IRS
Form 990
.
[45]
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Schiller had submitted his resignation on January 24, before the recorded meeting, and announced a week before the video was released that he was leaving NPR for a position at the
Aspen Institute
, but he was immediately put on "
administrative leave
" by NPR.
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The next day NPR's CEO
Vivian Schiller
(who is not related) announced she was resigning her position, effective immediately.
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Ronald Schiller made his resignation from NPR effective immediately on the evening of the video's release and the next day decided also to cede his new position at the Aspen Institute.
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Vivian Schiller
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NPR announced that CEO Vivian Schiller has resigned after controversial comments made by NPR's former top fundraising executive, Ron Schiller (no relation to Vivian), came to light in a secret video. A statement released in March 2011 by NPR's board of directors said the resignation by Vivian Schiller, who also faced criticism last fall for the dismissal of commentator Juan Williams, was accepted. But NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik tells Morning Edition host Renee Montagne that his sources were telling him that the CEO was forced out.
[57]
Dave Edwards, chairman of NPR's board, said directors came to the conclusion that the controversies under Schiller's watch had become such a distraction that she could no longer effectively lead the organization. She had told the directors that they should take the action they felt was appropriate, and Edwards said the board decided it would be best for her to depart.
[58]
According to a
CEO succession
plan adopted by the board in 2009, Joyce Slocum, SVP of legal affairs and general counsel, has been appointed to the position of interim CEO. The board will immediately establish an executive transition committee that will develop a time frame and process for the recruitment and selection of new leadership.
[58]
Michael Oreskes sexual harassment allegations
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In October 2017, two journalists accused
Michael Oreskes
of sexual harassment while working as the Washington, DC bureau chief for
The New York Times
during the 1990s.
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Oreskes became NPR's senior vice president of news and editorial director in 2015. After a report on the accusations was published in
The Washington Post
, NPR put Oreskes on administrative leave. Rebecca Hersher, an NPR journalist, went on the record about attending a career counseling session in October 2015, in which she says Oreskes discussed having sex with his girlfriend. At the time, Hersher filed a complaint against Oreskes, and NPR reprimanded him for his behavior.
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His resignation was requested by NPR's chief executive Jarl Mohn and Oreskes left NPR on November 1, 2017. Oreskes issued a statement saying he was "deeply sorry to the people I hurt. My behavior was wrong and inexcusable, and I accept full responsibility." He reimbursed NPR $1,800 in improper expense account charges.
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The
Washington Post
later reported that multiple sexual abuse allegations against Oreskes were ignored by NPR management during his two years there, and that NPR's handling of Oreskes had prompted a "virtual rebellion" among staffers. Staffers told CNN's
Brian Stelter
that Oreskes created an oppressive atmosphere by abusing his position to meet young women. A law firm was retained to probe NPR's handling of Oreskes, and Mohn conceded he did not act fast enough,
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The law firm's report, issued in February 2018, found that questions were raised about Oreskes' treatment of women even before he was hired, and that reports of misconduct were relayed to management right up to his firing. It found that repeated warnings to top management about his behavior toward women and expense account, which he used to pay for meetings with women, were ineffective, and that there was a high level of mistrust toward management.
[63]
Anti-Hindu statement from producer
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In 2019, an NPR producer based in Delhi, Furkan Khan, was forced to resign from her job following a backlash over a tweet in which she described Hindus as "piss drinking and dung worshipping" and stated that they should "give up Hinduism".
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Mike Pompeo and Mary Louise Kelly
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During the middle of the
impeachment trial of Donald Trump
, on January 24, 2020,
Mary Louise Kelly
, a host of NPR's
All Things Considered
, interviewed Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo
. After asking several questions about
Iran?United States relations
, Kelly asked why Pompeo had not supported Ambassador
Marie Yovanovitch
during the
Trump?Ukraine scandal
. Pompeo replied that he has always supported every State Department employee, although he was unable or unwilling to cite a single example of support for Yovanovitch.
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Kelly says that Pompeo ended the interview and took her to a private room where he yelled at her, using several expletives. He asked her if she could find Ukraine on a map; she says she pointed to Ukraine, while he claims she pointed to
Bangladesh
.
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In a move the State Department Correspondents' Association described as "retaliation," the State Department then denied
NPR correspondent
Michele Kelemen a seat on Pompeo's flight to Europe and Central Asia.
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President
Donald Trump
praised Pompeo for the interview, while suggesting he would cut funding for NPR.
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Since the incident, NPR spokeswoman
Isabel Lara
emailed Washington Post columnist Eric Wemple "Donations are up!"
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Supreme Court mask reporting
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In January 2021, NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg reported some Supreme Court justices were not willing to wear a mask to protect Justice Sonia Sotomayor, due to her comorbidities.
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The court released a statement challenging Totenberg's reporting, claiming all justices were wearing personal protective equipment in the courtroom.
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In response, the network's public editor wrote, "Totenberg's story merits a clarification, but not a correction. After talking to Totenberg and reading all justices' statements, I believe her reporting was solid, but her word choice was misleading."
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In April 2023,
Twitter
made the decision to label NPR, as well as the
PBS
,
BBC
, and
Voice of America
as
government-funded media
outlets following backlash from critics who accused the platform of bias. Twitter initially labeled accounts linked to countries like Russia and China but faced criticism for not applying the same labels to media organizations from Western countries. In response, the company expanded its policy to include these outlets as well.
Twitter claimed it aims to provide
transparency
and context to users about the sources of information they encounter on the platform. The company has stated that the labels are not meant to undermine the credibility of these media organizations but rather to offer users a better understanding of the potential affiliations and biases of the information they consume. The policy change reflects Twitter's ongoing efforts to improve transparency and maintain a neutral stance regarding state-affiliated media.
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NPR deactivated its Twitter account as of April 12, 2023 in a direct response to Twitter's labeling of the outlet.
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