Comments on: “This American Life” says report on Apple labor “partially fabricated”

By: JLB

JLB — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:28:53 +0000

Liberals like yourself and miss ‘krisaacs’ above are exactly the gullible people like Daisey loves. Who cares about facts? If it ‘raises awareness’ facts be damned.
I have personal knowledge of three separate news stories reported by the liberal press. Each had blatant and egregious errors in them, but none were corrected. How many more falsehoods do not get caught? Who knows.

By: Juan Jalar

Juan Jalar — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 01:49:15 +0000

No, he should join Dan Rather on HDNet.

By: scottph

scottph — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:04:12 +0000

Yeah, I wonder if this is going to get even half of the same coverage that the original lie got.
http://scottsscripts.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/mike-daisey-the-liar/

By: richsadams

richsadams — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 07:39:59 +0000

Mike Daisey is a liar. (Sincere apologies to Mark Daisey.)

By: richsadams

richsadams — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 07:33:08 +0000

Mark Daisey is a liar. He’s spent a good part of his professional life lying and making money at it. He has no moral compass other than the one that points to his wallet. He should not get a pass by John Biggs or anyone else. He should be a man, step up and admit that he lied. Then he should STOP LYING!

By: scottph

scottph — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 07:32:33 +0000

Bombshell. I wonder if this will get even half the coverage the original got…
http://scottsscripts.wordpress.com/

By: Lava

Lava — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 04:50:33 +0000

And yet, despite this, the anti-Apple brigade is largely unapologetic, now defaulting to the NY Times piece as its savior.

Here’s another lie that needs correcting: that the NY Times piece somehow pressured Apple into allowing FLA independent audits.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/

Apple releases its supplier report January 13, 2012. On Page 3 of the report, they announce that the FLA will begin independent audits. Presumably when you announce something like this, it has been planned for months.

NY Times release part 1 of the iEconomy series on January 21, 2012.

So why are journalists still repeating this notion that Apple only acted because of the scrutiny of the NY Times? Apple was ALREADY acting.

I guess, “Apple the only company to improve worker conditions in China year after year” and “Apple the only company to release its supplier report to the public year after year” doesn’t conform to the iHater agenda, eh?

By: herman

herman — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:31:15 +0000

I would be very angry if I were one of those protestors in front of Apple Stores today. :P It’s amazing how easily people are steered with media fabrication of facts

By: Lava

Lava — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:22:06 +0000

Funny how so many people are willing to defend Daisey because he is somehow an “artist in pursuit of the truth.” Let’s forget the fact that telling the truth requires people to not tell lies, or to fool people into thinking they are not telling tells.

So many people accept anti-Apple propaganda without questioning the motives of the propagandist. It’s clear that Mike Daisey was only in it to promote his name and make bucks selling tickets.

Even now, you see so many “journalists” report how the NY Times piece forced Apple into the FLA audits, when Apple announced the FLA audits WEEKS BEFORE as part of the supplier report it independently released.

Journalists can’t even get this basic fact right because it’s not being repeated by other journalists.

By: Lava

Lava — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:16:31 +0000

What? Did Daisey say Apple pressured him to lie about meeting 12 year old workers outside Foxconn’s gates? Did Apple’s lawyers pressure Daisey into writing how guards with guns kept workers in line?

Ah, yes, that must be the great power of lawyers you are walking about, convincing an actor to lie to news reporters about saying bad things about the company the lawyers themselves work for!