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NPR: Voice story about film critic flap is inaccurate

From ANNA CHRISTOPHER, NPR media relations: The Village Voice piece that you're linking to is full of inaccuracies. Bad reporting (or a complete lack of reporting) has turned this story into one about NPR's supposed ill treatment of Nathan Lee, which is completely fabricated.

If you're curious, the parts of the Village Voice's article that are completely untrue:

--NPR sent Nathan Lee the edited text of his review prior to publication, and he agreed to the edits.

--NPR also gave Nathan the option to not publish the review, or to publish the review as edited (without the names). He would be paid in full either way. Because he believed the issues the film raises are important ones, Nathan agreed the best course would be to remove the names and publish his review. He requested that his byline by removed, and a note be added explaining the absence of the byline.

--Nathan's byline was removed by NPR at his request, prior to publication of the article on Friday. The article was posted to the NPR.org homepage where it remained for many days.

--NPR removed Nathan's comment to NPR.org only after speaking with him, and with his explicit approval. Nathan agreed that his comment, which named the names edited out of the review, broke NPR's previous agreement with him and ran counter to the NPR policy in question. At that time, NPR offered, again, to take down the review, which he declined.

Posted at 10:48 AM on May 13, 2009

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