This American Life gets it wrong.

"This American Life", a favorite show on NPR stations, ran a story by a non-journalist, about working conditions in China for the companies that made Apple products before fact checking it. Seems the guy who supplied the story lied and embellished, like Michael Moore, for dramatic effect. Luckily, another NPR reporter go to the truth after the initial story was run. Looks like Fox is not the only one to mess things up, right? I listen to Ira Glass's show often and was very happy they devoted an hour to setting things right.

"'I'm not going to say that I didn't take a few shortcuts in my passion to be heard,' Daisey tells Schmitz and Glass. '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.'"

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 ... tory-story

A guy who is not a reporter makes up parts of his "monologue" in his passion to get an audience. Wow. Imagine that.

Breitbart fans should be so proud.

Bill Maher also had this guy on his show, I wonder if he will bother setting things right.

Wait, so I threw out all my Apple products for nothing? :faint:

Thanks NPR for airing that they screwed up. Refreshing for a news organization these days.

FredHayek wrote: Bill Maher also had this guy on his show, I wonder if he will bother setting things right.

Breitbart never did...Why should Maher? At least Maher bills himself as a comedian, instead of waiting until the crap-hits-the-fan and THEN saying, "Oh, by the way, I'm an entertainer..."

If only Fox News would do this. But then half their programming would be corrections.

Breitbart didn't make up facts, he just creatively edited the tapes. Something he learned from 60 Minutes. I wonder if Daisey would have got away with this story if it had been an evil oil company instead of media darling Apple.

Wow, comparing Breitbart to 60 Minutes. That's really a stretch.

JSG wrote: Wow, comparing Breitbart to 60 Minutes. That's really a stretch.

Next time you watch the CBS show, see how one-sided their stories are. They have been coasting on a undeserved reputation for decades.