From WNYKRC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Last week, a Jewish group temporarily suspended its boycott of the L.A. Times.

The group had been boycotting the paper because of a perceived anti-Israel bias in its coverage.

The L.A. Times is just one of a long list of major American news organizations that are being protested in some way currently.

Others include the Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, ABC's Nightline, National Public Radio, and the paper of record, The New York Times.

Fred Ehrman is helping coordinate the protest against the New York

Times, and he joins us now. Fred, welcome to On the Media. Hi, how are you? Good. So, can you give me a

couple of examples of an anti-Israel slant in the Times? Sure. There was a big issue made about a

photograph that appeared on the front page of the Times a week ago Monday,

the day after the rally. Here you had several hundred thousand Israeli marches. You had several

hundred demonstrators. And the front page had a large photograph with the sign showing and the

occupation. It totally distorted what happened there.

Which the Times later conceded.

There was an editor's note, and the only reason they printed that, there was such an outcry

from readers.

The Times didn't apologize and say it was a mistake.

They just said it didn't really accurately reflect what happened.

But this is not an isolated incident.

There was a story maybe two months ago,

about two 18-year-old girls, a homicide bomber, a homicide killer, an 18-year-old girl who blew herself

up and killed an innocent 18-year-old girl who was shopping for the Sabbath. And it kind of idealized

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