bias against Palestinians, notoriously in stories where Palestinian lives don't count for as much as Israeli lives. NPR also felt the need for "balance" in a 1993 story for Fresh Air about reporter Robert I. Friedman's book on Israeli settlers. The story was completed and promoted but never aired:

Fresh Air executive producer and host Terry Gross said, "It's not that [Friedman's] political views were too extreme to air, but that he colored a couple of things in extreme ways." Gross said Fresh Air "needed a balance" to "statements like 'settling the Occupied Territories is a lunatic endeavor' and 'most settlers see Arabs as less than human.'... At some point you feel, maybe it's appropriate to call up a settler and have them express that in their own words,the theater to find out how the remake compared to the 1960 original.

Kim Ki-Young's The Housemaid was a hit at the box-office but didn't get much critical attention at first. Not much Korean cinema did in those days. Kim Ki-Young (1922-1998) was an independent filmmaker with his own production company, who made phantasmagorical, gynophobic thrillers. So far the only other film of his I've seen is the crazy, brilliant Iodo (1977), about a mysterious island of women, but I have a few others on DVD. (Iodo can be seen online at Youtube, in sections.)

The original Housemaid is a Fatal Attraction kind of story, of a man and his innocent family ensnared by a scheming, ruthless seductress. Allegedly it was based on a scandalous news story of the period.