Although it is important to support forums for debate in the media, action must be taken against “strikingly unbalanced” coverage, said Andrea Levin, its executive director.
“[WBUR] has given substantially more air-time to Arab and pro-Arab views, almost twice as much in one study,” she said.
Stavis repeatedly asked the protesters their names and addresses.
“I’d like to picket outside your house,” he said to Roffman.
Undaunted, the demonstrators say they will be outside of WordsWorth at noon again tomorrow.
Protesters said they’re not trying to discourage consumers from shopping at WordsWorth and instead want to urge Stavis to reconsider his support of WBUR.
But Stavis said he felt they had another motive.
“If it looks like a boycott and talks like a boycott,” he said, “it’s a boycott.”