NPR Looks Inward

NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin turns his lens on his station’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina, finding that, as usual, you can’t please everybody.

Reader responses to NPR’s coverage included:

• “We all can see that communications is the main problem: Why did NPR not use its satellite phones and other such gear to help the police communicate?”

• “Do you ever feel that journalism is an inadequate response to the tragedies you report on?”

• “I remain convinced that NPR’s presentation of news items verges on opinion journalism.”

Despite the ongoing criticism that NPR (and, to be fair, most every other media outlet, too) receives, their efforts to produce more balanced journalism (or at least their efforts at promoting and revealing their balanced journalism) seems to be paying off. Less and less does one hear the famed gripe about NPR’s glaring liberalism.

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