Meet the Press: "It's not Journalism. It's Theater".
(Photo: NBC, Zimbio.com)
Posted on 03/17/2012 10:40:00 AM PDT by Qbert
At over a million digital listens, “Mr. Daisey Goes To The Apple Factory” is This American Life’s most popular episode in history. That’s no small feat for one of the world’s most well-known radio shows. When it aired, it set off yet another firestorm of controversy regarding the ethics of Apple (and other large tech companies) using cheap Chinese labor through major manufacturers like Foxconn. Mr Daisey, who has been touring for years with a monologue about his visit to the factories there and the moral implications thereof, provided details to This American Life to put together what was really a powerful and attention-grabbing piece.
Unfortunately, in the words of This American Life host and producer Ira Glass, “We’ve learned that Mike Daisey’s story about Apple in China – which we broadcast in January – contained significant fabrications. We’re retracting the story because we can’t vouch for its truth.”
This week’s This American Life will take a full hour to detail the errors and fabrications in Daisey’s report.
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... some things Schmitz was personally acquainted with stuck out — for instance, the idea that Daisey had met in Shenzhen with workers who had been poisoned by n-hexane.
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He also contacted Daisey’s interpreter, whom Daisey claimed to be unable to reach, and apparently for good reason. She contradicted much of what Daisey claimed in his monologue and on NPR.
In the investigative episode shortly to air, Schmitz confronts Daisey with this information. His response:
I’m not going to say that I didn’t take a few shortcuts in my passion to be heard. My mistake, the mistake I truly regret, is that I had it on your show as journalism, and it’s not journalism. It’s theater.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.boston.com ...
Enough said right there.
I am glad that NPR is going to show some backbone, for once. Their record for covering for liberals and Liberals is loathsome.
Move along, folks. Nothing to see here.
"I am glad that NPR is going to show some backbone, for once."
True, but this "story" was all over the financial press and made a huge splash- NPR never should have allowed this so-called reporting to air in the first place.
It’s no different from Upton Sinclair’s the Jungle, completely made-up. And like the Jungle, this program will assuredly be taught as fact in schools around the country.
I saw this schlub do his one man ‘show’ about Apple and while the folks of a liberal bent just thought it was fabulous I considered it illogical, unfunny, fabricated and boring. The man spits when he talks, weighs a lot more than most folks, and wants to decry the technolgy that he uses in his show.
The man is just a liberal loon....is anyone surprized he lies????
"it’s not journalism. It’s theater."
That needs to be the new slogan for the entire MSM...
I doubt that this is a case of NPR showing "backbone".
More likely, it is a case of NPR backtracking under pressure by Apple, rather than a case of NPR making the change because truth and fairness demand it.
Would NPR bend over backwards to correct flawed reporting that makes a conservative person or company look bad? Somehow I doubt it. Other leftist institutions (the New York Times and the Washington Post come to mind) will do anything but report truthfully about conservatives, and they can not be swayed by appeals to logic, reason, or truthfulness to correct wrong "reporting" (for example, look at the grotesquely biased and untruthful New York Times "reporting" about the Koch brothers and their companies, and the steadfast refusal of the fiends at the NYT to set the record straight).
I tune in NPR once in a while to catch the tone of the garbage they are pushing. I lasted less than thirty seconds one day last week as Diane Rheam was going on about women being under attack by some politicians.
And for this they get public tax dollars.
Tune in their “news” at any hour and hear the latest DNC talking points.
They must be taken off the public dime.
LOL! Instead of "All the news that's fit to print" (NYT) or "All the news that fits" (Rolling Stone)...
Would NPR bend over backwards to correct flawed reporting that makes a conservative person or company look bad? Somehow I doubt it. Other leftist institutions (the New York Times and the Washington Post come to mind) will do anything but report truthfully about conservatives, and they can not be swayed by appeals to logic, reason, or truthfulness to correct wrong "reporting" (for example, look at the grotesquely biased and untruthful New York Times "reporting" about the Koch brothers and their companies, and the steadfast refusal of the fiends at the NYT to set the record straight).
You got that right, NPR knows there is little more dangerous than an offended highly profitable, economically powerful lefty corporation.
NPR knows whose boot to lick.
Daisey is nothing but another disgusting anti-Christian bigot
Meet the Press: "It's not Journalism. It's Theater".
(Photo: NBC, Zimbio.com)
This American Lie.
“In the investigative episode shortly to air, Schmitz confronts Daisey with this information. His response:
I’m not going to say that I didn’t take a few shortcuts in my passion to be heard. My mistake, the mistake I truly regret, is that I had it on your show as journalism, and it’s not journalism. It’s theater.”
Oh so a news-related show gets to make up facts and use dramatic license—and it’s on taxpayer funded NPR. (Actually the show is prod. by American Public Media,
the folks who bring you that Lake Wobegon guy, and dist.
by Public Radio Int. but it’s on many NPR stations). I don’t often check out NPR but the news and talk leans
left. Sometimes it can be slightly entertaining—Harry
Shearer’s Le Show will have a Car Talk spoof called
Karzai Talk—but it’s def. on the left.
The day we hear a show sponsored by the Tea Party on NPR
is truly the day it might slightly be a bit more balanced.
Fake but accurate defense?
Will this retraction -- and the much deserved complete discrediting of Mike Daisey -- get as much airplay as the original sensational lies and fabrications? Months and months of repetition on the front page of hundreds of news sites?
Didn't think so.
Karzai Talk — lol!
I’m love/hate when it comes to NPR. Their lefty tilt drives me crazy but they do have some well produced and entertaining stuff. Sometimes I wonder if liberals realize how good they have it. They get to listen to ideologically affirming programming with zero commercials. We conservatives have to put up with commercial breaks every 8 minutes so our guys can pay the bills.
It’s funny, I’ve seen liberals in various comments threads go on about Apple and Foxconn. I’ll bet it traces straight back to this Daisey guy.
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