NPR's pro-War reporting

National Public Radio
Ombudsman
Jeffrey A. Dvorkin
ombudsman [at] npr.org

Dear Mr. Dvorkin

NPR’s reporting about the October 26 Anti-War March in Washington was neither professional or honest. During the airing of Weekend Edition, Nancy Marshall went overboard in disparaging the event. She claimed that, “It was not as large as the organizers of the protest had predicted. They had said there would be 100,000 people here. I'd say there are fewer than 10,000."

Actually, organizer Mara Verheyden-Hilliard told the Washington Post the march was "just extremely, extremely successful." CSPAN, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times all estimated the crowd at 100,000 or more.

NPR’s seems to be walking in lock-step with the pro-war mainstream media. Everything is done to falsely discredit all opposition to the Bush war. Shame on you.

Peace, Guy