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Tag Archives: Mike Daisey
Video Appears to Offer Peek Inside HP Factory
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You may have wondered from time to time who made the device you are using to read this blog post. Now a video being circulated on the Internet apparently offers an unobstructed view. Nothing much happens in this video. AnteboyanROX, … Continue reading
Kara Swisher, Mike Daisey Go at it on Twitter
Remember when monologist Mike Daisey was forced to admit on This American Life that significant parts of his popular show about worker abuses at Apple contractor Foxconn's Shenzen, China plant were fabricated? Well sensitivities around that issue are running high … Continue reading
Mike Daisey Pushes Back in Blog Post
Mike Daisey is pushing back today on the mesmerizing if excruciating 57 minutes of radio that was this weekend's "This American Life" show. The program, titled "Retraction," was an investigation and mea culpa regarding falsehoods in Daisey's monologue about abuses … Continue reading
Listen to This American Life's Mike Daisey Retraction
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In January, the radio show "This American Life" ran an excerpt from monologist Mike Daisey's show "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," but now it's retracted the segment after Rob Schmitz, a reporter for another radio show, "Marketplace," … Continue reading
Audio: 'Marketplace' Correspondent and Ira Glass Confront Mike Daisey on Monologue Discrepancies
Here's "Marketplace"'s segment today about the Mike Daisey-Foxconn controversy. The piece is done in conjunction with another radio program, "This American Life," which said today it's retracting an excerpt it aired from Daisey's well-received theatrical monologue about abuses at Foxconn, … Continue reading
'This American Life' Retracts Mike Daisey's Story of Visit to Apple Contractor Foxconn; Daisey's Response
Mike Daisey's "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," a one-man show about his trip to Apple contractor Foxconn in China, caused quite a stir and served as another chunk of bad public relations for both companies. The radio … Continue reading
Video: Jon Stewart Takes on Controversial Apple Supplier Foxconn
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Last night on "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart and Co. took on Foxconn, the giant Taiwan-based company that is often cited as the world's largest contract manufacturer of electronics, and especially Apple products — it turns out tens of millions … Continue reading
Interview: Monologist Mike Daisey Discusses "The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs"
Mike Daisey bringing his monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs to Berkeley Rep is not quite tantamount to someone producing "Angels in America" at, like, the Crawford, Texas community theater. But an analogy exists in that Daisey's … Continue reading
