NPR Issues Rare Retraction
Reporting mistakes "substantially undercut the story."
Listeners who tuned in to All Things Considered Wednesday may have heard a strangely vague on-air story retraction that raised as many questions as it answered â especially for those who didn't hear the original story on April 3.
Here's what was said:
"Now, we need to tell you about some mistakes made by NPR in a story that aired last week.
We reported about a man who says he spent $100,000 to have things that were written about him removed from Google search results.
NPR has retracted that story because it did not meet our standards. In the report, we
