NPR Describes Way it Covers Science

NPR is taking it licks for the surreptiticiously recorded conversation two of its top officers had with men pretending to be part of a Muslim Brotherhood-funded foundation. There are now hundreds of news reports and commentaries on the story, and even the ones on NPR, in the New York Times and in the Washington Post are damaging to the proposition -- if it still is believed anywhere -- that NPR is objective and unbiased.

In the course of a long lunch in Georgetown, NPR's Sr. Vice President...