4/08/2003

I am listening to one of NPR's supposedly best news shows right now, the Diane Rehm Show. Our good buddy Ahmed Chalabi came up as a topic of conversation. Neither Diane nor a member of her panel on today's show even mentioned that Chalabi was sentenced to 22 years hard labor in Jordan because of how he ran the formerly third largest bank in that country.

I'm hoping an email or caller will bring this to their attention, but, in an honest media, the listeners should not have to do THIS MUCH of the media's job, we should not have to point out things that are common knowledge to the media community. Things that SHOULD be reported to the public. I am very disappointed, because NPR is supposed to be better than this.