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The Agony and the Dishonesty of Mike Daisey's Apple Story Last year, performer Mike Daisey sat down with Jeff Brown for Art Beat to discuss his much-talked-about one-man show, "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs." It was revealed Friday by public radio's Marketplace and This American Life that parts of Daisey's story that he told to This American Life, the NewsHour, other news outlets and his theater audience were not true. Here is what Daisey ... Mike Daisey responds to 'This American Life' retraction of Apple supply story The public radio program "This American Life" retracted its story "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory" on Friday, saying that the piece "contained significant fabrications." The piece, which was broadcast in January, helped set off a protest movement that grew after the New York Times ran articles on conditions in factories that are a part of Apple's supply chain. The radio program was based on ... Ira Glass: Mike Daisey fabricated parts of Steve Jobs monologue The public radio program âThis American Life,â which in January devoted an episode to storyteller Mike Daisey's monologue âThe Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,â has issued a retraction of that show due to what host Ira Glass is calling âsignificant fabricationsâ in the content of the monologue excerpt used in the show. Glass also says that Daisey lied to the program during fact-checking. Mike Daisey's 'Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs' cancelled after reports of fabrications The radio program "This American Life" and WBEZ 91.5 FM said Friday that they have cancelled the live presentation of Mike Daisey's "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" at The Chicago Theatre on April 7. The announcement cited "the revelation of numerous fabrications in Daisey's story," which he has told at both at the Public Theater in New York and on "This American Life." 'This American Life' Retracts Mike Daisey's Apple Factory Story The story became the show's most popular podcast and inspired a petition, signed by hundreds of thousands, demanding better working conditions for factory workers. But, now, This American Life says Daisey fabricated many aspects of the story. Performance artist Mike Daisey accused of lying about Apple subcontractor Foxconn The weekly Public Radio International show 'This American Life,' hosted by Ira Glass, said it will devote its entire program this weekend to detailing errors it says it has uncovered in Daisey's accounts of the lives of Foxconn workers in China. Mike Daisey the Monologist is Outed by This American Life as a Liar (and He Agrees, sort of) Mike Daisey first came to prominence when he turned his experience working for Amazon into a book and one-man play entitled "21 Dog Years." For the past two years, he's been performing another Mike Daisey's Steve Jobs monologue 'fabrications' force Chicago show cancellation "Numerous fabrications" have been found in "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs ," the much-heralded story by Mike Daisey about dangerous and exploitative conditions in the Apple company's Chinese factories.Recent fact-checking about the story, which was first presented on Jan. 6, 2012 over National Public Radio outlets as an episode on Ira Glass' show, "This American Life ," and ... Mike Daisey's betrayal of This American Life's truth – and my trust | Bob Garfield I know journalism is a narrative art and some say mere facts should serve a 'higher truth'. Another name for that is lying There are lies and there are lies and there are lies. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Big Lie. "OMG, your [homely] baby is beautiful!": small social lie. And then, there is the highly debatable third category: lies in service of the greater truth. Ryszard Kapuściński's ... Mike Daisey fibbed about Apple's Chinese factories Mike Daisey, a monologue actor and author who is scheduled to perform at the Spoleto Festival in June, falsified some of the information in his one-man stage show The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs , a dramatic exposé of Apple Inc.'s factories in China. His show focuses in particular on the factories run by the manufacturing company Foxconn in the southeastern port city of Shenzhen, and it ...
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