BACKING BARI: Ooops, I said stuff on Jeff Norman’s podcast. Honestly, the whole thing stinks. As I said in the clip:

• Editors’-in-Chief have the final word (that was ignored with the reporter’s public and heavily promoted temper tantrum). Newsrooms are not democracies;
• The critics and reporter are too cute by half to swap “requests for comment” and “requests for interview.” They are not the same thing;
• There is some lying going on here with regard to efforts to seek comment, getting more that 300 words from the government, yet ending the story with “they refused to be interviewed.”

That’s some cheap-jack sh*t, right there.