Add: And today comes yet another bolt: The Chicago Reader’s Michael Miner writes that his late brother-in-law John McIlwraith, an NPR commentator (and, like Sedaris, another marvelous storyteller) for more than a decade before his death in 2006, didn’t necessarily let facts get in the way of a good yarn. Miner quotes his sister and McIlwraith’s widow, Dixie, as saying:
"I cannot fault NPR. His editor at the time was Margaret Low Smith (now a vp) and she was interested only in time constraints and the quality of the writing. She did occasionally suggest that she assumed all these commentaries were accurate but she, very wisely, never pushed it."
