{"id":182618,"date":"2015-07-22T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/07\/22\/well-i-dont-give-to-npr-anyway\/"},"modified":"2015-07-22T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T01:10:00","slug":"well-i-dont-give-to-npr-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/07\/22\/well-i-dont-give-to-npr-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, I Don’t Give to NPR Anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"

My brother made an interesting observation about the NPR obituary for Theodore Bikel: There was no mention whatsoever of the fact that Bikel was Jewish<\/a>:<\/p>\n

There is a word missing from NPR’s obituary for Theodore Bikel (Theodore Bikel, Who Starred In Broadway’s ‘Fiddler On The Roof,’ Dies). <\/span>

<\/span> That Jew. Or for the squeamish, Jewish.<\/span>

<\/span> The piece was delivered (and one assumes written) by Lynn Neary, described as having” develop[ed] NPR’s first religion beat. [And] As religion correspondent….covered the country’s diverse religious landscape”.<\/span>

<\/span> \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span>

<\/span> The closest NPR came to hinting that Bikel might have a Jewish connection was that his family fled Vienna to the Palenstine Mandate. All NPR chose to say was that Bikel’s family fled.<\/span>

<\/span> I am curious why it was so hard for NPR to say the word Jew, or even Jewish?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is interesting.<\/p>\n

I will note that I have been leery of NPR’s religion beat reporters since the ties between NPR religion reporter Barbara Bradley Hagerty and the religious right hit the blogosphere over a decade ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Please note, I don’t think that there is some sort of secret agenda in what NPR is doing here:  I think that public broadcasting is being driven by their abject terror of what the Congressional Republicans might do to them.<\/p>\n

It’s been that way since Gingrich was speaker.<\/p>\n

One final note:  Nice catch by my bro.  I missed the omission completely.<\/p>\n

Aka Stephen Saroff      o o  The Bear who Swims      
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My brother made an interesting observation about the NPR obituary for Theodore Bikel: There was no mention whatsoever of the fact that Bikel was Jewish: There is a word missing from NPR’s obituary for Theodore Bikel (Theodore Bikel, Who Starred In Broadway’s ‘Fiddler On The Roof,’ Dies). That Jew. Or for the squeamish, Jewish. The …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1064,994,1021,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-obituaries","category-religion","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}