National Public Radio still has an ombudsman, a “Public Editor,” to respond to public complaints. That’s appropriate, since the public pays for NPR. Often the liberals who dominate the NPR audience complain when they feel NPR is insufficiently “progressive.”
So it was a little shocking when Public Editor Kelly McBride admitted on October 4 that they botched an online story on September 17 attacking National Review editor Rich Lowry as bumbling into the N-word in Megyn Kelly’s podcast as they discussed Haitians in Springfield, Ohio.
NPR media reporter David Folkenflik wanted to boast that NPR ultimately came around to his sense that Lowry’s stumble over the word “immigrant” wasn’t a news story.
NPR is one of the only news orgs in the nation with a public editor or ombudsman.
Her latest:
When the facts are right, but the story is wrong : NPR Public Editor
