This American Life Retracting "Mr. Daisey & The Apple Factory"

Re:This American Life Retracting "Mr. Daisey & The Apple Fac... by mjs on Friday March 16, 2012 @02:43PM (#3714689)

During the original piece, host Ira Glass gives the impression that they were originally sceptical, saying that they "actually spent a few weeks checking everything that he says in his show." So I guess they need to check a bit harder next time...

Full quote: "When I saw Mike Daisey perform this story on stage, when I left the theater I had a lot of questions. I mean, he's not a reporter, and I wondered, did he get it right? And so we've actually spent a few weeks checking everything that he says in his show."

From http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/454/t... or http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.thi...

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Re:This American Life Retracting "Mr. Daisey & The Apple Fac... by beatle on Friday March 16, 2012 @02:55PM (#3714751)

The public radio broadcaster said that the segment’s creator, Mike Daisey, had fabricated key details in his report. Although Daisey did actually travel to Shenzhen and speak with Foxconn workers, he later told This American Life that he should have been more forthcoming in his work -

adding “this is theater,” he said. “Not journalism.”

unbelievable. shameless.

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