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This American Life Retracts ‘Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory’ (Daringfireball)
Ira Glass:
> The China correspondent for the public radio show Marketplace tracked down
the interpreter that Daisey hired when he visited Shenzhen China. The
interpreter disputed much of what Daisey has been saying on stage and on our
show. On this week's episode of This American Life, we will devote the entire
hour to detailing the errors in "Mr. Daisey Goes to the Apple Factory."
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> Daisey lied to me and to This American Life producer Brian Reed during the
fact checking we did on the story, before it was broadcast. That doesn't
excuse the fact that we never should've put this on the air. In the end, this
was our mistake.
Kudos to Glass and This American Life for getting on top of this and devoting
as much time to the retraction as they did the original story.
I've only mentioned Mike Daisey once on Daring Fireball, when I linked to This
American Life's now retracted episode, and when I did, I added no commentary.
I caught much shit about this from critics, who posited that my lack of
analysis or coverage of Daisey's claims was proof of my hopeless bias in favor
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