it on for day before realizing his wallet was hemorrhaging...
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From: Dana [mailto:dana.tier...@gmail.com]
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yep, heard about that on NPR news earlier. Apparently the author said
I thought this week's show, called retraction, was gripping. Well worth the
hour.
About as well done a mea culpa as I've ever heard
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/
The pauses in the audio are profound.
The very last act is the most surprising part.
I had never heard of nor listened to TAM
Start listening. Its been pretty good. Unlike many on the radio,
especially in talk/rant radio, Ira Glass has a great deal of
integrity.
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Jerry Milo Johnson jmi...@gmail.com wrote:
I thought this week's show, called retraction, was gripping. Well worth the
I have not heard it yet but I've listened to the show quite a few times.
Usually the stories are fairly personal. But they are presented as true.
Not performance art. Real stories that happened to real people. The show's
coming up later today, but I'll use the link if I miss it. I have to give
It's not an NPR show, so they shouldn't get any credit. Or blame.
It is obvious that Daisey thinks of his piece as a performance piece, with
plenty of dramatic license, that falls somewhere between Death of a
Salesman and Lake Woebegone on the need for accuracy spectrum. Plenty of
dramatic
well NPR *broadcast* it so it reflects on them. I heard it on KQED.
I'll wait to hear the retraction before commenting further. I think that's
essentially the divide though, but TAM isn't really a *news* show. I
remember one segment about one guy renting an apartment when he was 15 in
the
A good comparison, would Faux Snooze ever have done such a retraction,
or even admit an error in the first place?
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Dana dana.tier...@gmail.com wrote:
well NPR *broadcast* it so it reflects on them. I heard it on KQED.
I'll wait to hear the retraction before
The show is on right now on the local NPR station
(http://wamu.org/audio-player/885_1). FWIW its a pretty damning report
on how Daisey lied.
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Larry C. Lyons larrycly...@gmail.com wrote:
A good comparison, would Faux Snooze ever have done such a retraction,
or
At least he apologized right away when he was confronted instead of dragging
it on for day before realizing his wallet was hemorrhaging...
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From: Dana [mailto:dana.tier...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 9:08 PM
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Subject: Re: Liar Liar Pants on Fire
yep, heard about that on NPR news earlier. Apparently the author said he
shouldn't have done it because This American Life is more
This American Life has retracted its episode about working conditions at
Foxconn. Apple challenged the veracity of the reporting in the piece when
if first ran in January, and in an episode set to air later today, the
radio show will confirm that Mike Daisey made up some of the most shocking
Without caring either way about this story I did notice the problem
was that it says the poisoning happened a 1000 miles away.
.
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Cameron Childress camer...@gmail.com wrote:
This American Life has retracted its episode about working conditions at
Foxconn.
Yeah, presenting performance art as journalism is probably not the best idea.
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Cameron Childress camer...@gmail.com wrote:
This American Life has retracted its episode about working conditions at
Foxconn. Apple challenged the veracity of the reporting in the
yep, heard about that on NPR news earlier. Apparently the author said he
shouldn't have done it because This American Life is more journalistic that
theatric. Gee, ya think? I haven't looked at the specifics, but it seems to
me that even in theater, if you are making shocking allegations about
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/123102_bb1liar.html
My question, where was Author Anderson, Enron, WorldCom, Tyco?
It seems to me that coming up with a few billion dollars out of thin air
is much better than steel wool.
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