Newspaper columnist to NPR: if you don't subscribe, why should we pledge?

After reading a memo leaked to Romenesko about NPR canceling its newspaper subscriptions, Hartford Courant columnist Rick Green fired off a terse blog entry that concluded, "Memo to self: cancel pledges to WFCR and WNPR." And you can imagine the chain of reactions that set off. WNPR's John Dankosky reported on the controversy, and appears to have defused it, here.