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NPR Issues Rare Retraction

Reporting mistakes "substantially undercut the story."
Source: Oleksiy Maksymenko

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 — 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

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