by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 22, 2012 | Asides
John Gruber and Dan Benjamin talk Mike Daisey. The Daisey stuff starts about midway through. Well worth the listen. Then listen again. 5by5 | The Talk Show #84: Daisey, Daisey, Give Me Your Answer, Do
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 21, 2012 | Commentary, Featured
Jim Dalrymple has a great idea: Apple should sue Mike Daisey and give the money to Chinese workers. It should be noted that what Daisey did, and, unfortunately by association, what This American Life did, could be construed as libel: libel (for written, broadcast, or...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 20, 2012 | Asides
Gruber: I think what Daisey really believes is that he deserves the attention his lies have brought him, and so he has no intention to stop telling them. I think Gruber’s right. Totally worth the read. Daring Fireball: Separating the Baby From the Bath...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 20, 2012 | Asides
Mike Daisey in an interview in the Playbill from the Wooley Mammoth Theater, the theater in Washington D.C. where The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs was workshopped. NOTE: He never answers the question or, as Ira Glass told him, he’s hedging. Madeleine...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 16, 2012 | Commentary, Featured, Writing
So… there’s going to be an update on This American Life tonight about a story they ran in January based on a stage play by Mike Daisey. To put it bluntly, as Ira Glass did on the TAL blog: Daisey lied to me and to This American Life producer Brian Reed during...
