NPR “public editor” Kelly McBride usually investigates complaints from coverage from die-hard NPR fans – meaning laments that NPR hasn’t been sufficiently leftist. But on April 2, one of the three complaints she answered was from the “unwoke.”
The subject was the failed attempt to blow up a Michigan synagogue school by a man named Ayman Ghazali. NPR reporter Hadeel al-Shalchi went to the town in Lebanon where his family lived for a sympathetic story on the March 14 All Things Considered. McBride recounted:
In a column published on Substack, Batya Ungar-Sargon wrote on March 30: NPR’s headline read, “In a small Lebanese town, grief and fear follow the Michigan synagogue attack.” That’s right: NPR found the real victim of an attack on 140 Jewish American babies—and it’s the Hezbollah-infested town in Lebanon that raised a family of terrorists.