NPR executive nods at " Jews control the media " insinuation ?

On the Left myself I still find NPR curiously deviant from the kind of " liberalism " that we baby boomers could still respect in the " tumultuous 60s ". And NPR is hardly a bastion of the FREE SPEECH tradition in the USA - even dropping COMMENT liberties during the 2016 presidential election or soon after.

This from a story by Eric Rozenman ,former editor of the Washington Jewish Weekly and executive editor of B'nai B'rith's International Jewish Monthly ( June 29, 2016 ) :

[ Blast from NPR’s past

“Thinking they were dining with two representatives of a Muslim Brotherhood front group and potential big donors, Ronald Schiller, head of National Public Radio’s nonprofit foundation, and Betsy Liley, network director of institutional giving, did their best to be agreeable.

“Told by imitation Islamist ‘Ibrahim Kasaam’ (at about 7:45) that some of his friends refer to NPR as ‘National Palestinian Radio,’ Schiller and Liley laugh. Liley adds, ‘Oh, is that right. That’s good. I like that.’

“When ‘Kasaam’ says to Schiller that ‘Jews do kind of control the media or, I mean, certainly the Zionists and the people who have the interests in swaying media coverage toward a favorable direction of Israel,’ the NPR executive neither challenges nor refutes the insinuation, nor does he simply get up and leave. Instead, he continues eating and nods his head vaguely.” ]

Interesting : " neither challenges nor refutes the insinuation... "

Is not this blindness to interests of Zionist Israel corrupting NEWS in the USA ?