NPR ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin has weighed in on a report done by reporter David D’Arcy. D’Arcy was dismissed for it. “The original report did not, in my opinion, fully and accurately present all of the facts. Nor did it present MoMA’s position on the ownership question. The painting has been in federal custody for years, and MoMA’s position is that the Austrian courts must decide the painting’s legal owners, since the painting was in the United States only as part of a loan arrangement. Most important, in an issue of journalistic fairness, the report did not give MoMA a chance to respond to specific and direct charges leveled against it by numerous critics. The original report was wrongly framed, and NPR was right to air a clarification in early January.”