Society defines journalism differently than when I studied it in
school 15 years ago. A fact needs to be verified by three independent
sources, they used to teach us. Now, a fact is anything anybody says.
The guy who crafted the story is to blame, but so is This American
Life. Moreover, society is
No, he can't. I've listened to the retraction episode and Glass said that
he made it clear to Daisy in conversation and via email that they were fact
checking the entire piece and wanted to vet it for accuracy and Daisey said
he understood that.
In fact, in the first Daisey interview in this week'
Daisey could argue that the fact that the segment was an edited recording
of a performance before an audience was proof enough that he was dong art,
Neither Glass nor any of the journalists who contribute to "TAL"
interviewed him for the segment, which ran for about 40 minutes of that
episode's hou
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Mark Jeffries wrote:
> for his part Daisey says he was doing art, not journalism:
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Did he bother to mention that to Ira Glass and company before the story
ran? Did he bother to mention it after it ran?
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The hazards of trying to be journalism and non-journalism at the same
time--Ira Glass' public radio program aired an excerpt from a one-man
theater piece by monologist Mike Daisey about working conditions at a
Chinese supplier to Apple--Glass now says that the piece was "fabricated"
in part and
