Berkes blasts back
If I were Howard Berkes, I'd be mad enough to spit nails.Berkes, the rural affairs correspondent for National Public Radio and based out of Salt Lake City, this week had to deal with layoffs at NPR (he's the union steward for the American Federation of Radio and Television Artists) - and with a false blog posting that said he was one of those losing a job.
"I have not been laid off," Berkes told the Tribune's Vince Horiuchi on Thursday. "There was a blog posting that had no basis in fact."
That blog posting was on Gawker.com, which also put veterans Linda Wertheimer and Noah Adams on the chopping block - only to take their names off the "laid off" list later. Berkes called the blog posting "a distraction we don't need."
