MICHELE NORRIS, Host: Our coverage yesterday of the fallout from Shirley Sherrod's firing sent many of you to your keyboard.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: But the clip was part of a longer speech about how she recognized and overcame her feelings and ultimately helped the farmer, who has since come to her defense. The White House apologized to Sherrod yesterday.</s>MICHELE NORRIS, Host: Holk continues: Wouldn't it have been more appropriate to discuss their role in the matter? How about a discussion of Fox's sleazy reporting and Breitbart's fraudulent video editing.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: I could not be more furious. That's from Michael Walker(ph) of Mountain Grove, Missouri. He felt our reporting came up short, taking specific issue with our statement that conservative activists have blurred the lines between journalism and advocacy.</s>NPR: Andrew Breitbart has done no such thing. He has eradicated the line between fact and fiction, or if you will, between the truth and a lie. If NPR cannot call the actions of this prevaricating charlatan a falsehood, then who will?</s>MICHELE NORRIS, Host: The action was, from the get-go, amateurish, unsavory and disloyal, not a declaration but a whimper.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: Send us your thoughts on anything you hear on our program at npr.org. Just click on contact us at the bottom of the page.
Robert Siegel and Michele Norris read from listeners' e-mails about our coverage of the fallout from the firing of former USDA official Shirley Sherrod.