Cool people or not, his remarks, as reported in Wired News, are either the remarks of someone who doesn't know any better (a fool) or someone who knows better but chooses to say things which he knows to be untrue (a liar).

NPR has already done the wrong thing, not once, not twice, but a hundred times. They did the wrong thing when they but up that outrageous form (a nice commentary on what is wrong with that form is on my friend Teresa's blog at: http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/2002_06.html#000330).

They did the wrong thing when they received email from numerous people who criticized the policy, both gently and forcefully and responded with bullshit rationalizations, lies and double-talk.

Dvorkin did the wrong thing when he gave that ridiculous interview to Wired News and made statements that no person employed by a news agency should every have made.

I will celebrate when NPR's outrageous, stupid policy is reversed, but I won't congratulate them for doing the right thing...finally.