From October 25 – October 27, 2011, NPR’s investigative correspondent Laura Sullivan and NPR West producer Amy Walters made sensational charges
against the state of South Dakota on NPR’s two largest news shows. They
claimed that the state forcibly removed American Indian children from
their families and placed them in white families for the purpose of
receiving additional revenue from the U.S. government.
The series soon came under withering scrutiny by John Hinderaker at
Power Line (see links below to his 6-part 2011 examination). Unbeknownst
to Hinderaker and about everyone else, NPR’s independent ombudsman
Edward Schumacher-Matos began his own inquiry into the series about the
same time. He spent 22 months examining the reporting of the series and
actually went back and re-reported what Sullivan and Walters had
reported. The result is a stinging 80-page
rebuke of Sullivan, Walters and their editors August 9, in which he
characterized the series as “an injustice.” Here is an extended excerpt
of Schumacher-Matos’ report summary (emphasis mine):
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