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On Tuesday August 5, my son was driving me home from work & he wanted to know why I questioned whether the FBI had really discovered the correct killer in the anthrax inquiry. The NPR report that spawned my derision was one noting that in Dr. Ivins's senior high class play, he played (cue the creepy music) a murderer. I don't know whether NPR dug up that irrelevant gem itself or whether that's courtesy of an FBI leak, but c'mon. As I pointed out to my son, HE played the people-eating plant in his high school's production of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. That doesn't mean 30 years from now, he'll be a cannibal.
I know NPR isn't always everything I'd like it to be, but this is sinking below Fox News levels. It may be worth noting that at least one professional infectious diseases group urges skepticism about the anthrax case's closure. NPR would have done better to note that than to blither away about Ivins's high school play.
