Spike wrote to point out that the NY Post article about the Terry Gross-Gene Simmons interchange has been discredited. Dan Mitchell, an NPR producer/editor, wrote Jim Romenesko after Media News highlighted the Post article on the 6th:

‘ “NPR won’t post audio of Gross’s ‘Fresh Air’ spat with Simmons” is based on an erroneous New York Post story written by Michael Starr claiming that the interview with Gene Simmons of Kiss was “so controversial that NPR declined to make it available on its Website.” This is simply false. NPR aired the interview on a nationwide radio network, after all — it didn’t have to. The audio was not posted online because Simmons refused to grant permission for Internet rights to the interview, a step that is treated as routine by the overwhelming majority of guests. This fact could have been ascertained in about 30 seconds by merely picking up a phone.’

I didn’t do my homework either, it’s clear, since this added detail is covered in several of the sites I read frequently. Others have written to point out that an .mp3 of the entire conversation between Gross and Simmons is available for download, although it’s a 25-megabyte file.