The manner in which Mills brushes past the central error in Caliphate -- a very big error that he presided over! -- makes me quite distrustful of whatever else he has to say.
https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1357799106547179523
He says in this letter that he "helped create and produce" Caliphate. The show's credits give him standalone credit as "producer." When it won a Peabody, he posed holding it with Rukmini Callimachi. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/medi…
But when the podcast was wrong, he says he's not to blame, because his bosses told him that. What? 
It's obviously in Mills' interest for the argument to be about whether he was unfairly punished for old behavior when he was at WNYC rather than about whether he was unfairly punished for a journalistic failure.
But it's actually worse that his conception of the job was apparently that it was someone else's job to make sure the podcast was accurate. That's not what it means to have fact-checkers!
I would note that *Callimachi's* public statements on Caliphate have done something you would ordinarily expect in this situation: apologize and take personal responsibility. npr.org/2020/12/18/944…
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