{"id":3607,"date":"2014-05-28T18:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T23:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=3607"},"modified":"2014-05-28T19:12:25","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T00:12:25","slug":"what-was-that-again-ira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/05\/28\/what-was-that-again-ira\/","title":{"rendered":"What was that again, Ira?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Ira<\/a>

<\/a> Ira Glass<\/p><\/div>\n

I\u2019d like to retract my retraction.<\/p>\n

On March 22 \u2014 two days after Public Radio International announced it was dropping distribution of \u201cThis American Life\u201d \u2014 I reported exclusively<\/a> that host and executive producer Ira Glass would be moving the show to Public Radio Exchange.<\/p>\n

\u201cSources tell me it\u2019s going from PRI to PRX,\u201d I wrote here. \u201cAlthough all parties involved are keeping mum . . . insiders said Friday an agreement is expected with Public Radio Exchange, another distributor of public radio programming, based in Cambridge, Mass. The current deal with PRI expires on July 1.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two days after that, I heard from Glass, who told me I had it all wrong.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI was surprised to see your article saying 'This American Life' has landed a new distributor since we haven\u2019t begun\u00a0negotiations with PRX or anyone else to distribute the program,\u201d Glass wrote. \u201cI honestly have no idea who would\u2019ve suggested that a deal with PRX is wrapped up. Very weird.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not wanting to disclose my sources or get into a dispute with Glass (whose work I\u2019ve admired and respected for years), I accepted his denial and promptly retracted my report. \u201cI regret and apologize for the error,\u201d I wrote.<\/a><\/p>\n

Well, well, well.<\/p>\n

Imagine my surprise when Glass and his Chicago Public Media production partners announced<\/a> Wednesday that \"This American Life\" would indeed be distributed by Public Radio Exchange, starting July 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re excited and proud to be partners now with PRX,\u201d Glass said in a statement<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cThey\u2019ve been a huge innovative force in public radio, inventing technologies and projects to get people on the air who\u2019d have a much harder time without them.\u00a0 They\u2019re mission-driven, they\u2019re super-capable and apparently they\u2019re pretty good with computers.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the deal was announced, I asked Glass for a clarification.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hadn\u2019t spoken with them or any of the other distributors at the time,\u201d he told me. \u201cIt was still wide open.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guess I just got really, really<\/em> lucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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