miguelmacias asked: Mr. Rosen: Listening TAL's retraction episode I had the increasing feeling that this was a big show to exonerate This American Life and vilify a person who after all, is not responsible for the fact that This American Life did not do its due diligence when conducting the fact checking for this story. Do you think that all the praise directed at TAL for their handling of this situation can result in them not being held accountable for the simple fact that they messed up?
We retract that episode. We apologize to our listeners. By not trying to contact the translator, we screwed up. We should have killed the story. It...