The problem with “truthiness” highlighted as David Sedaris report called into question
In the wake of the now infamous Mike Daisey incident on This American Life, other writers operating in the grey area between fact and fiction are finding their work under… 3 / Read more »
Did Jeff Bezos teach Mike Daisey how to lie?
An interesting side note to the ongoing controversy over Mike Daisey’s monologue about Apple, “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs”: In what Jack Shafer calls a fresh “fabulist… 1 / Read more »
VIDEO: Daniel Alarcón launches Spanish-language Radio Ambulante
The novelist Daniel Alarcón is looking for funding for a new initiative, and it’s a good one: he and his colleagues at Radio Ambulante aim to create a Spanish-language radio… Read more »
Apple has surprising response to new report about Chinese supplier
Last week This American Life broadcast a big program focusing on Apple and its use of Chinese supplier Foxconn. (A story we’ve been following since April 2010, including here, here,… Read more »