Dear WBUR Radio:

I am writing to complain about the lack of coverage of a recent major news story. Your station (and for that matter, NPR national) provided virtually no coverage on the murder of Pvt. William Long, 23 of Conway Arkansas last week at an army recruiting center by one Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammed. Mr. Muhammed was in possession of automatic,semi-automatic weapons, grenades and, by his own admission, killed in the name of Islam. Furthermore, information found on his home computer indicated that he was planning to attack Jewish and Christian community centers.

At almost the same time that abortion Doctor George Tiller was killed by Scott Roeder in Kansas, Mr. Muhammed was committing his crime in Arkansas. The disparity in coverage speaks volumes about your station's political agenda.

What is the reason for WBUR, Here&Now and On Point devoting lengthy segments to the murder of Dr. Tiller but completely ignoring this major news story out of Arkansas?

Given the fact that Mr. Muhammed not only killed an innocent recruiting officer, wounded five more and attempted to kill many more, in addition to his intent to carry his "Jihad" further afield, it is inconceivable that WBUR, which has reported at length on "hate" crimes in the past (Eric Rudolph, Matthew Shepherd, James Byrd, Jr., to name just a few), chose to ignore this particular hate crime.

NPR national reported the murder only as an AP feed on June 2nd and on its "Two Way" blog to an audience of virtually no significance compared to its daily 25 million person on-air audience. The network did not assign a single reporter to cover the Arkansas shooting. In contrast, the network assigned Tovia Smith, Frank Morris, Kathy Lohr, and others to cover the story every day from May 31st through June 9th. Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Talk of the Nation all devoted major time to covering the Tiller murder, but zero time to the Arkansas slaying.

Please don't insult my intelligence with the fallback platitude:

"There are many newsworthy stories out there; WBUR doesn't have the time or resources to cover all of them."

NPR and its affiliates receive hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal government, reach more listeners on a weekly basis than Rush Limbaugh and receive their FCC broadcast frequencies free of charge. With so many hundreds of reporters, you couldn't spare even one for a story with such obvious national security implications?

Please explain this glaring and obvious "censorship by omission" policy.