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Mike Daisey lied his tits off in public radio program This American Life. He basically made up a lot of stuff about Foxconn. TAL had to retract the whole thing, but Mike says his lies were all for a good cause:
Everything I have done in making this monologue for the theater has been toward that end – to make people care. I’m not going to say that I didn’t take a few shortcuts in my passion to be heard. But I stand behind the work.
My mistake, the mistake that I truly regret is that I had it on your show as journalism and it’s not journalism. It’s theater. I use the tools of theater and memoir to achieve its dramatic arc and of that arc and of that work I am very proud because I think it made you care, Ira, and I think it made you want to delve. And my hope is that it makes – has made- other people delve.
Well, Mike, I understand your frustration with people not paying attention, but if you lie to them, then they are not going to trust anything you say. Ever. In fact, you achieve exactly the opposite effect: you work against the story you are trying to call attention to. Your lies only add confusion and destroy the credibility of your cause.
Oh diddums little Jesus Diaz. Did someone say something nasty about your Daddy?
You’re an idiot. I left Giz US to get away with you, now they post your iObsession drivel here.
Get away *from* you.
Dammit, lack of an edit button leaves me looking like an idiot.
I for one like reading his post’s. Don’t think calling him names is gonna make him go away, I think he is likely ro be here to stay.
He does have a point this time though, even if the post makes him Captain Obvious.
This guy is just another apple basher, like most others he has no real concern about the issues facing the Chinese workers, would cry if he had to pay more for his Chinese manufactured goods, but does love to have a go at apple at any given oppertunity..
Ah, Jesus Diaz, incredibly ironic that he’s the one talking about journalistic integrity.
I’m going to have to agree with Jesus on this one (Yes I know, shocking). Whatever Daisy may say about his motives for lying or “using the tools of theater and memoir to achieve a dramatic arc” as it shall henceforth be known, he didn’t say as soon as the program was broadcast “Hey, that stuffs not true, I just used dramatic licence”, he allowed people to go on believing that what he had said was true. While this did focus the world’s attention for a time on the issue and may have raised the conditions for some workers it also means that the next time there is a shocking report about the conditions in these factories people are going to be more sceptical and people who have a vested interest in keeping it covered up will say “Remember Mike Daisy, he lied about stuff, this is just more lies”.
Don’t believe that, not for a second. He thought he would get away with inventing a few figures, a la Apple, but got caught so made up this lame-ass excuse.
Damn I wasted time listening to that show. I thought it was quite interesting at that time.