Regardless of their reaction to it.. this line is key: > "Fairness" is one of our guiding principles, and to that end we have pledged to "make every effort to

Regardless of their reaction to it.. this line is key: > "Fairness" is one of our guiding principles, and to that end we have pledged to "make every effort to gather responses from those who are the subjects of criticism." In this instance, that did not happen. The story referred to one individual as the "author" of a website that another person said had posted defamatory information about him. It also described the author's motivation as vindictive. But NPR did not contact the alleged author. So NPR did NOT contact the author and then described their motivation. It's good that they retracted this article but how many times have they released similar articles with similar total disregard for the truth?