on who you are. howard: npr is partially funded by the funded by the feds. whether you agree, lucy, wouldn t npr in a pr sense say, you know what? he raises some good questions, we re going to have some internal discussions rather than just circling the wagons in. well, npr did not fire him, and he did something that was unprecedented and very abnormal, which was to go free wheeling, sort of like self-directed, go right to a different outlet, go do a media tour trashing his employer. that is not normal. he s not a media reporter, he s not a media ombudsman. this was obviously by design. a lot of the things he s saying about npr may be correct, but this was not his beat. he s not a person whose beat is to cover npr, and certainly his beat was not to cover his own employer in a different outlet. as for the funding thing, i really want to double click on that because, look, you can take aim at the fact that a there are lots of things that are funded