JOURNALISM: Better Late Than Never: NPR Admits It Slandered South Dakota. “I don’t believe I have ever seen a representative of a media outlet take apart his own outlet’s story with the care and thoroughness displayed by Mr. Schumacher-Matos. The one thing he doesn’t do is address the motivations of those who reported and produced the false and misleading series, but it is easy to fill in that blank. The reporter and editors spoke from the liberal perspective that is taken for granted by pretty much everyone at NPR. They had a narrative that they wanted to push for political reasons. And they are sticking by their story, even though it has been thoroughly demolished, by me and by Mr. Schumacher-Matos.”