dave, when it is NOT true, and there was no effort made at even the most rudimentary fact-checking (which would have shown it was not true), you don;t get to the "so what."
The issue here is not really one of whether the situation does or does not exist. The issue is whether fantasy and fiction were presented as fact, and whether NPR made any effort to confirm its accuracy or instead went with it without any effort to check because it was consistent with a political agenda.