Mike Daisey Explanation From Apple ... Awkward

Mike Daisey Explanation From Apple ... Awkward: The first time I saw Mike Daisey has been more than ten years ago, when he performed a monologue called '21 Dogs of his time working on the Amazon.com (AMZN). Since then I've seen three of his shows, most recently, The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. This one, based on only after the death of Steve Jobs and focus on Apple (AAPL) iconic products, has done much to set in motion the review of our relations with the way we use the products produced. The show became a sensation, sparking a chain of investigations. Now, This American Life, which aired on the radio version of the monologue Daisey, announced that it has removed the claims in the show. Rob Schmitz, reporter for NPR tracked market Daisey translator in China, and found that many Daisey tells stories that are simply not tested. Daisey says now that he is his work that just is not journalism.

Well, this is so. It must be true journalism, fiction, of course, has the right to be just right for him. But the problem is that Daisey show (which I wrote a positive) attracts a lot of power that its main plant's history of Chinese workers, in fact, true. In the monologue, Daisey says he loves his computer so he takes them apart and clean the air blower. I do not think that all this is true. But when Daisey said he appealed to the workers, whose hands were trembling nerve toxin poisoning, I took that to be true. Otherwise, what's the point?

The show, which did in 2009 called Cargo Cult Daisey Finally, he begins with the story of a hard landing in a seaplane to go on a small atoll. When the plane was ready to hit the water in choppy seas, the cabin erupted in screams. Thinking that they were on the verge of death, the passengers developed an instant connection. And they're not dead. They looked at each other, and it was ... weird. Clumsy, Daisey repeated statements that the public carefully.

This is exactly what I feel now. Daisey said in his blog that his goal was to create a "human relations". Well, he's done for me and many others. This human touch is now disbanded. I have no idea if the episode was quite true seaplane. Most likely, it was not, and it does not bother me particularly. Issues of this case are very different, though. Daisey, I can say that he wants his own experience. But when he talks about the experience of workers in the enterprises that make Apple's products, or other stories, draw their strength from the fact that they are true.

In a cover story in Bloomberg Businessweek in 2010, Frederik Balfour and Tim Culpan visited Foxconn (2038: HK) plant and has not found a house of horrors. They found a plant with long travel difficult, and workers with a lot of complaints. This is the last word in the Foxconn? Probably not. On all questions of labor in China? Of course not. The material draws Daisey is based on fact. The question of nerve damage from hexane at a factory iPhone, for example, someone who grew up in a real investigation into PBS Newshour. As products we use and take for granted are worth serious study, and, of course, the soul searching. But as soon as we discover that the "human relations" based on all this soul searching is not 100% realistic? Well, Mike, this is awkward.