arstechnica.com: Well-loved radio show This American Life—spawned from station WBEZ right here in Chicago—has some "difficult news" about one its most popular shows, an episode on Apple and labor conditions in China. The episode "contained significant fabrications," writes TAL host Ira Glass today on the show's blog. He is devoting this week's entire episode, called "Retraction," to the story. The original TAL episode, "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory," aired on January 6, 2012, and included portions of the one-man show "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" by Mike Daisey. (We attended a performance last year.) It proved hugely popular, but recently a reporter for another public radio show tracked down one of the interpreters Daisey used on his own visit to a Shenzhen factory that makes Apple gadgets, a visit recounted in his show.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
This American Life retracts hugely popular episode on Apple and China
arstechnica.com: Well-loved radio show This American Life—spawned from station WBEZ right here in Chicago—has some "difficult news" about one its most popular shows, an episode on Apple and labor conditions in China. The episode "contained significant fabrications," writes TAL host Ira Glass today on the show's blog. He is devoting this week's entire episode, called "Retraction," to the story. The original TAL episode, "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory," aired on January 6, 2012, and included portions of the one-man show "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" by Mike Daisey. (We attended a performance last year.) It proved hugely popular, but recently a reporter for another public radio show tracked down one of the interpreters Daisey used on his own visit to a Shenzhen factory that makes Apple gadgets, a visit recounted in his show.
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