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 to blame for the pathetic state of journalism in the world today. Dan Rather was ousted from CBS when the news organization failed to fact check a story. What will become of This American Life, I wonder? Guessing nothing at all.
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Joe Coughlin <inturnaro...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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's episode, he says that > he mostly feared that if he made it plain that there were parts that he > fabricated (not his word, but mine) then it would undermine the work and it > was something he feared. Then he lied to Glass and his fact checkers about > the availability and name of his Chinese interpreter. > > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Mark Jeffries <spotligh...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> 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 hour. >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 12:46 AM, televisiongirl >> <televisiong...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Mark Jeffries <spotligh...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> for his part Daisey says he was doing art, not journalism: >>>> >>> >>> >>> Did he bother to mention that to Ira Glass and company before the story >>> ran? Did he bother to mention it after it ran? >>> >>> >>> TVG >>> >>> -- >>> TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TV or Not TV" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en >> >> >> -- >> TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "TV or Not TV" group. >> To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > > > > > -- > +++++++++++++++ > Joe Coughlin > http://www.twitter.com/inturnaround > > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
