This story and image (Andy Mills and Rukmini Callimachi at the 78th Annual Peabody Awards) appeared in the NPR platform, a leftist bastion, which criticizes it's frenemy the New York Times, which is probably just as leftist and thereby corrupt. The piece is authored by David Folkenflik. Curious readers can read additional coverage here and here.
"The New York Times has retracted the core of its hit 2018 podcast series Caliphate after an internal review found the paper failed to heed red flags indicating that the man it relied upon for its narrative about the allure of terrorism could not be trusted to tell the truth".
