koshergrl
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"This impulse to dismiss fakery in the service of larger truths makes a reappearance in the Washington Post, as Joshua Topolsky attempts to defend hoaxer Mike Daisey, exposed earlier this month by NPR for lying about his experiences in China and about Apples factories there:
No, he didnt lie about all of it. He did go to southern China and meet with workers from Foxconn. He was there, all right, but he wasnt honest about what hed seen. There were no underage workers hed spoken with, there was no man with a maimed hand. In one passage of his show, ­Daisey talks about workers who had been poisoned by a gas called n-hexane. That part was true there had been workers poisoned by this gas at a Foxconn factory somewhere in China. But Daisey never spoke to them. Like many of the most upsetting moments in his show, Daisey simply fabricated the encounter."
"....The main point he drives home is that he felt it was necessary to embellish his story in order to retain the truth of the message of his show. He lied to tell the truth, basically."
Boy does this sound familiar. Lie to be truthful, kill to save, restrict freedom to promote it.
The return of “fake but accurate” « Hot Air
"....The main point he drives home is that he felt it was necessary to embellish his story in order to retain the truth of the message of his show. He lied to tell the truth, basically."
Boy does this sound familiar. Lie to be truthful, kill to save, restrict freedom to promote it.
The return of “fake but accurate” « Hot Air