note: brudgers is Mike Daisey's publicist.

Source on this? Sorry, but recent events have encouraged me to be more stringent about fact-checking.

note: it's a fabrication.

in the words of Mike Daisey: "I used a combination of fact, memoir, and dramatic license to tell a story"

Chicago Public Radio, who is purported to have sent the email, does have an ongoing relationship with NPR. So does their parent company, Chicago Public Media which produces This American Life. NPR coproduces Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me with CPM.

PRI, as you note, is in competition with NPR (and CPM). They are producers of the journalistic expose' about a one man show not meeting the standards of investigative journalism. A strawman argument indeed.

> Money is the best explanation for the PR push behind your email.

So your position is that Apple is pressuring NPR which is pressuring Chicago Public Media which is pressuring Chicago Public Radio which is pressuring Public Radio International which is pressuring This American Life to issue a retraction?

I really don't think This American Life needed much pushing to retract admitted falsehoods.