One year ago today Steve Jobs stepped down as CEO of Apple anointing Tim Cook king of the iKingdom and by many metrics he has done a good job as leader of the gadgeteers.
David Rakoff, a writer known for his funny, cynical essays and frequent appearances on This American Life, has died at 47. He had been battling a malignant tumor since 2010.
Within the first 10 minutes of Wednesday's Washington D.C. performance of The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, Mike Daisey embodied the image I'd had of the man who lied to This American Life. "I've been doing this for a long time, it's a kind of professional blundering," he said before letting out a series of squawks while shaking his arms like a spastic bird.
Journatic, a company that provides hyper-local stories to media outlets, was called out by This American Life this weekend for using fake bylines on stories from their Blockshopper.com. While that is surface-level bad, the whole operation seems deeply sinister for supporters of shoe-leather journalism.
Today in books and publishing: the truthiness of David Sedaris draws scrutiny post-Mike Daisey, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is headed for bankruptcy, and a defense of the coming New York Public Library Renovations.
Just when people were starting to be nice to him again, Mike Daisey's eponymous blog and his Twitter account mysteriously went dark Tuesday, but they're back again.
Mike Daisey finally apologized for making up much of his Foxconn monologue, without blaming the media for perpetuating his lies or the audience for not understanding the context, but his mea culpa comes too late to salvage the harm he's done to his own cause.
In his first public remarks since This American Life ran its retraction of his Foxconn story last weekend, Mike Daisey explained how the system of talk-show types interviewing journalists turned him into a liar.
In Mike Daisey's response to This American Life's retraction of his Apple story, he continues to lean on his point that Apple and Foxconn hurt Chinese workers, but his claim that critics "dance on his grave" so they can go back to ignoring labor abuses is simply not true.
How to deal with the delicate situation of Mike Daisey and his falsified reports from Apple's Foxconn factory? By simply surgically removing the fabricated passages from his hit one-man show.
This American Life has retracted "Mike Daisey Goes to the Apple Factory," the story that arguably started the recent spate of articles examining Apple manufacturer Foxconn, because a Marketplace reporter discovered Daisey had lied about the facts.
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