#mikedaisey

[hearthgods]

“The fucked tree of art grows slowly in the dark”

After Mike Daisey

[jaybushman]

It's a mythic story about New York City. It's Mark Helprin crossed with Philip K. Dick. It's an occult journey into a secret history, filled with magical realism and mystic hermaphrodites and Death himself riding his pale horse across the East River. It's about what's happened to the city in the years I've been here, the daughter of the moon and her iPhone, the rise of corporatism, Dionysius partying all night in a Chelsea apartment with a crown of Budweiser cans, and a dark faerie tale for grown-ups. It's so much more. But my hourglass is empty, and I have a story to tell.

Firsthand: Mike Daisey, on the 29 Monologues That Make Up the 29-Night All the Faces of the Moon at the Public Theater - Special Reports - Sep 12, 2013

[maxamoo]

First night of Mike Daisey "All the Faces of the Moon" tonight at The Public Theater #allthefaces #mikedaisey #publictheater (at Joe's Pub)

[thejohnblog]

After reading it, I have come to the conclusion...

Mike Daisey is a spineless piece of shit.

Dude, if you're going to apologize for lying, no one wants a half confessed, bullshit ramble to try and justify your means to an end.

You didn't get as much dirt as you hoped to find so you made up shit.

"It's theater, not journalism."

Please. That would have worked if you had been forthcoming when NBC, Bill Maher, and Ira Glass expressed interest.

You fucked with the trust of the American consumer and ruined, yes RUINED the validity of the discussion on a serious subject.

Your ego was inflated by the attention and yet you still use your third shot at apologizing by using guilt again to keep the discussion going?

Every mother of people over the age of 30 just called, they want their schtick back.

You did your job, though buddy.

You want to be clear NOW that you're just an entertainer?

Fine. I'm entertained. And now that we're clear on that, don't expect my trust ever again and next time, just leave it at that.

[jeffvaldez]

"Wait, should I feel bad about this?"

Ira Glass: But to get to the normative question that's kind of underlying all the reporting and all the discussion of this, I feel like the thing that we all want to know when we hear this is like, "Wait, should I feel bad about this?" You know what I mean? As somebody who owns these products, should I feel bad?

Charles Duhigg: So it's not my job to tell you whether you should feel bad or not, right? I'm a reporter for the New York Times. My job is to find facts and essentially let you make a decision on your own. But let me pose the argument that people have posed to me about why you should feel bad, and you can make of it what you will. And that argument is there were times in this nation when we had harsh working conditions as part of our economic development. We decided as a nation that that was unacceptable. We passed laws in order to prevent those harsh working conditions from ever being inflicted on American workers again. And what has happened today is that rather than exporting that standard of life, which is within our capacity to do, we have exported harsh working conditions to another nation. So should you feel bad that someone is working 12 to 24 hours a day in order to produce the iPhone that you're carrying in your pocket—

Ira Glass: Well, now like, when you say it like that, suddenly I feel bad again, but okay, yeah. [laughter]

Charles Duhigg: I don't know whether you should feel bad, right? I mean—

Ira Glass: But, but finish your thought.

Charles Duhigg: Should you feel bad about that? I don't know, that's for you to judge, but I think the the way to pose that question is: do you feel comfortable knowing that that iPhones and iPads and, and other products could be manufactured in less harsh conditions, but that these harsh conditions exist and perpetuate because of an economy that you are supporting with your dollars.

Ira Glass: Right. I am the direct beneficiary of those harsh conditions.

Charles Duhigg: You're not only the direct beneficiary; you are actually one of the reasons why it exists. If you made different choices, if you demanded different conditions, if you demanded that other people be, enjoy the same work protections that you yourself enjoy, then, then those conditions would be different overseas.

(from This American Life, #460 Retraction)

[eafarris]

The Metafilter thread concerning TAL's retraction of "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory."

[katiepdx]

Damn, corrections suck. And this is a huge one. These interviews are really hard to listen to. Ira sounds so angry :(