What Is It With Left/Public Radio?: 'This American Life' Radio Show Caught Lying...

[Truthmatters]

When will Fox fire their long list of liars?

 

[The Infidel]

Intolerant of the lies you cling to

When will Fox fire their long list of liars?

 

[LockeJaw]

Time to end all Taxpayer-Funding for Public Radio & TV. Period, end of story.

Should've never been to begin with. All it can be is a government mouthpiece.

 

[daveman]

Attacks on NPR and PBS are an on going effort by conservatives to dumb down Americans.

What are you whining about? You have plenty of media outlets that lean left. You don't need all of them to lean left.

What am I saying? Of COURSE you need all media outlets to lean left. Can't have anyone exposed to dangerous, unapproved conservative ideas.

I'm not whining; I stated a fact.

No, that was clearly whining. Because it sure wasn't a fact.

But you really feel that way, don't you? Anything besides liberal thought is dumb, and the American people should be shielded against it.

You use the word left without defining what you mean. I'm not speaking of a dictionary definition, what do you mean by "leaning left"?

I guess that depends on what the meaning of "is" is.

"Left" = "liberal". Now stop playing stupid, unless, as I suspect, you're not playing.

As for wanting all media to lean left I can assure you no matter what benefits a left leaning commentator might bring to the left, the remarks of Rush Limbaugh create greater ones.

Yet some people agree with him.

That's dangerous. Has to be stopped.

 

[daveman]

He was telling the truth about the evil of a big US corporaton using slave labor. So he made a couple errors here and there. Do you walk on water?

I don't tell big fat lies on the radio.

 

[Full-Auto]

Bush did avoid Veitnam with his national guard service.

When will FOX fire all their liars?

Your rant is quite easy to shoot down, but you lack any meaningful comprehension for that bit of reality.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Bush did avoid Veitnam with his national guard service.

When will FOX fire all their liars?

I would phrase that as Bush served his country in the National Guard....
I think that is a more accurate statement.

Bush joined to Guard to avoid Vietnam, and he admitted it.

 

[Full-Auto]

Bush did avoid Veitnam with his national guard service.

When will FOX fire all their liars?

I would phrase that as Bush served his country in the National Guard....
I think that is a more accurate statement.

Bush joined to Guard to avoid Vietnam, and he admitted it.

Then you wont mind proving a quote the left didnt make up.

I know you wont though

 

[NYcarbineer]

'This American Life' busted the guy.

Why is that so hard for wingnuts to comprehend?

 

[Full-Auto]

'This American Life' busted the guy.

Why is that so hard for wingnuts to comprehend?

Great, then post up.

Its not that I dont believe it didnt happen its I do not believe anything coming from the left. Too much history to support the deceptions of the left and why they can never be trusted.

 

[NYcarbineer]

'This American Life' busted the guy.

Why is that so hard for wingnuts to comprehend?

Great, then post up.

Its not that I dont believe it didnt happen its I do not believe anything coming from the left. Too much history to support the deceptions of the left and why they can never be trusted.

It's in the OP.

 

[NYcarbineer]

This American Life is the most interesting show on radio. I wish I remembered to listen to it more often.

 

[rdean]

Working conditions in China are fantastic. They even put up nets to catch workers who might fall down on the jobs.

Pretty fucking thoughtful if you ask me. They don't do that here.

Typical leftist regime. Can't even escape the government by suicide.

I got the chance after I lost to John McCain last time, to go over to -- that was the good part of losing -- I got to go to the Olympic Games in China. It's pretty impressive over there how quickly they can build things, how productive they are as a society. You should see their airport compared to our airports, their highways, their train systems. They're moving quickly in part because the regulators see their job as encouraging private people. It's amazing. The head of Coca-Cola said the business environment is friendlier in China than in America. And that's because of the regulators. That's because of government.

You can listen to Mitt talk about "slaying the (US) government beast" here:

Mitt Romney Praises Chinese Regulators

Now, show me where Democrats are praising the Chinese Government the way Republicans do.

 

[NYcarbineer]

You can listen to the retraction here:

Home | This American Life

Or read the transcript of the retraction, all 20 pages of it, here:

http://podcast.thisamericanlife.org/special/TAL_460_Retraction_Transcript.pdf

And, maybe, for a little perspective, you might want to read it while keeping in mind, for comparison's sake,

the recent it-was-everyone's-fault-but-mine 'apology' made by the spiritual leader of modern American conservatism,

Rush Limbaugh.

 

[newpolitics]

Obviously Public Radio & Public Televison are Left/Democrat-Biased, so why do they continue receiving Tax Dollar-funding?


Radio show’s Foxconn story retracted due to fabrications by author


Recent media scrutiny of the working conditions of Apple’s overseas factories pushed the company to recently open factory doors for inspection. Details of one report from one of Apple’s most ardent critics, however, have been found to be a lie.

In January, a monologue aired by the radio show This American Life told accounts of hazardous working conditions for Chinese workers at Apple’s Foxconn factories. Last week, Marketplace’s China Correspondent Rob Schmitz and This American Life host Ira Glass confronted the monologue’s author Mike Daisey on air. Daisey, who is also an actor, admitted that he had fabricated portions of the account where he had met workers who had been poisoned by a toxic chemical while working in the factory. Daisey said he had wanted to “capture the totality” of his trip to China.

Schmitz tracked down the woman who worked as Daisey’s Chinese translator, who told him that portions of Daisey’s story were false. Glass subsequently issued a retraction Friday for This American Life, and said that Daisey had lied to him during the fact-checking that took place prior to airing the story.

The original story in January is This American Life’s most popular story to date, the show said in a press release about the incident. The story has been downloaded 888,000 times and streamed 206,000 as of Friday. This American Life has now killed the show after concluding that it cannot “vouch for the truth of Mike Daisey’s monologue about Apple in China.”

Glass said they are “horrified to have let something like this onto public radio,” and that This American Life is devoting the entirety of this week’s program to detailing the numerous errors in Daisey’s fiction.

Daisey is, however, hardly apologetic.

“I stand by my work,” Daisey said Friday in a statement on his website about the piece. He said the piece featured on This American Life was an “adaptation” of his longer critically acclaimed monologue, “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” which first debuted in 2010. His intentions were to bring awareness to the conditions under which American consumer electronics are made.

Daisey’s confession comes after he had been featured on national television and had conducted numerous interviews discussing his account. Daisey, who is not a journalist and confesses as much, admitted to having taken a “few shortcuts” – his motivation: his “passion to be heard.”

Read more: This American Life | Apple Foxconn Story | Fabrications | The Daily Caller

The question is, are conditions in apple's factories good or bad? Whether he lied or not does not change what may be a stark reality for many, many workers there, and one fabrication does not invalidate plight of many chinese workers. So, to this, I say. Who cares, and I agree with Daisy in standing behind his position firmly. He is trying to expose a reality. He may have embellished a specific incident, but that doesn't change the reality these workers must face. I am willing to bet the conditions are really bad. Hence, why Apple produces in China, not America. It could not get away with it here. Why do people assume such good will among corporations? Is it the advertising? The shiny silver metallic coating to their i-macs? I don't get it. What inculcation is to blame for this?

Well, you would say all that. You're a loyal Left/Democrat no?

I believe in the truth. There is a reality about these workers are being treated. A man tries to expose that, and you call him by a certain political orientation in order to demerit. It's unreal that you want people to work in terrible conditions. That you want to turn a blind eye. Wake up.

 

[paulitician]

The question is, are conditions in apple's factories good or bad? Whether he lied or not does not change what may be a stark reality for many, many workers there, and one fabrication does not invalidate plight of many chinese workers. So, to this, I say. Who cares, and I agree with Daisy in standing behind his position firmly. He is trying to expose a reality. He may have embellished a specific incident, but that doesn't change the reality these workers must face. I am willing to bet the conditions are really bad. Hence, why Apple produces in China, not America. It could not get away with it here. Why do people assume such good will among corporations? Is it the advertising? The shiny silver metallic coating to their i-macs? I don't get it. What inculcation is to blame for this?

Well, you would say all that. You're a loyal Left/Democrat no?

I believe in the truth. There is a reality about these workers are being treated. A man tries to expose that, and you call him by a certain political orientation in order to demerit. It's unreal that you want people to work in terrible conditions. That you want to turn a blind eye. Wake up.

He's a liar. And that should offend you. What happened to you?

 

[Katzndogz]

The question is, are conditions in apple's factories good or bad? Whether he lied or not does not change what may be a stark reality for many, many workers there, and one fabrication does not invalidate plight of many chinese workers. So, to this, I say. Who cares, and I agree with Daisy in standing behind his position firmly. He is trying to expose a reality. He may have embellished a specific incident, but that doesn't change the reality these workers must face. I am willing to bet the conditions are really bad. Hence, why Apple produces in China, not America. It could not get away with it here. Why do people assume such good will among corporations? Is it the advertising? The shiny silver metallic coating to their i-macs? I don't get it. What inculcation is to blame for this?

Well, you would say all that. You're a loyal Left/Democrat no?

I believe in the truth. There is a reality about these workers are being treated. A man tries to expose that, and you call him by a certain political orientation in order to demerit. It's unreal that you want people to work in terrible conditions. That you want to turn a blind eye. Wake up.

Mike Daisy lied. He made it up. He made it all up. It's unreal that democrats prefer to believe the lie. He exposed nothing, he got exposed as a complete liar then claimed his lies were just theater.

 

[Katzndogz]

Well, you would say all that. You're a loyal Left/Democrat no?

I believe in the truth. There is a reality about these workers are being treated. A man tries to expose that, and you call him by a certain political orientation in order to demerit. It's unreal that you want people to work in terrible conditions. That you want to turn a blind eye. Wake up.

He's a liar. And that should offend you. What happened to you?

The left is quite convinced that exposing the lies is what's wrong. Mike Daisy lied, but it SHOULD be true, so in the mind of the left it is true.

 

[Katzndogz]

How many suicides in this country because Avatar wasn't real and Pandora didn't really exist?

 

[paulitician]

Well, you would say all that. You're a loyal Left/Democrat no?

I believe in the truth. There is a reality about these workers are being treated. A man tries to expose that, and you call him by a certain political orientation in order to demerit. It's unreal that you want people to work in terrible conditions. That you want to turn a blind eye. Wake up.

Mike Daisy lied. He made it up. He made it all up. It's unreal that democrats prefer to believe the lie. He exposed nothing, he got exposed as a complete liar then claimed his lies were just theater.

I don't even care that he's a liar. I just don't think all Taxpayers should be forced to fund such lies. Taxpayer-Funding of Public Radio & TV is an outdated concept. They've only become propaganda tools for the Left at this point. It's time for a change. End the funding now.