Yeah, the article in question that got this guy suspended was like reading about an alternate mirror reality. If anything has gone wrong at NPR (and similar media orgs) in the past decade it's the willingness to bend over backwards to try to satisfy their harshest bad-faith critics, which is utterly impossible, and results in really terrible coverage.

I find the five day suspension thing bizarre... either fire the guy or don't, whatever. But his claims that they didn't give enough credence to the craziest, most pernicious lies out there is the opposite of true.