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dayo, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:33 (twelve years ago) link

What's morally repugnant in one country is accepted business practices in another, and companies take advantage of that."
NICHOLAS ASHFORD, a former chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health, on the often harsh and dangerous conditions that laborers endure in Chinese factories where iPhones, iPads and other high-tech devices are assembled.

NY Times

curmudgeon, Thursday, 26 January 2012 15:08 (twelve years ago) link

Did they freeze his head like Waly Disney?

Lava lamp, Thursday, 26 January 2012 15:10 (twelve years ago) link

Er, Walt

Lava lamp, Thursday, 26 January 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago) link

where's waly 's head

quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Thursday, 26 January 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link

NICHOLAS ASHFORD, a former chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health

You can make his name from the letters in his committee

Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 26 January 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link

Thanks, jaymc.

pplains, Thursday, 26 January 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link

one month passes...

Since his name was brought up in this thread. Could appear on lots of other threads, too.

'This American Life' Retracts Show on Foxconn Working Conditions over Fabricated Claims

Back in January, popular radio show This American Life aired an episode dedicated to working conditions at Foxconn's factories in China, drawing heavily from Mike Daisey's theater monologue entitled "The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs". In the monologue, which has been a notable part of the push to address working conditions at Apple's suppliers, Daisey relates tales from his visit to China where he met with Foxconn workers.

In a remarkable reversal, This American Life has now announced that it is retracting its January broadcast of Daisey's content, citing a number of fabrications discovered in a follow-up investigation on his claims.

The China correspondent for the public radio show Marketplace tracked down the interpreter that Daisey hired when he visited Shenzhen China. The interpreter disputed much of what Daisey has been saying on stage and on our show. [...]

Daisey lied to me and to This American Life producer Brian Reed during the fact checking we did on the story, before it was broadcast. That doesn't excuse the fact that we never should've put this on the air. In the end, this was our mistake.
An accompanying press release relates a number of Daisey's claims that were shown to be false, from claims of having met workers injured by use n-hexane to an anecdote in which he described meeting a man who had had his hand mangled in equipment while producing the iPad and showing the man a functional iPad for the first time.

Daisey reportedly lied to This American Life's staff when asked for contact information for the interpreter he used during his travels, but once the interpreter was found through other means his story began to come apart.

For his part, Daisey acknowledges that some of the information he presented was not entirely truthful, arguing that his monologue was created for theater. Consequently, he agrees that it should not have been presented as journalism, although he stands behind the intent of his work.

I stand by my work. My show is a theatrical piece whose goal is to create a human connection between our gorgeous devices and the brutal circumstances from which they emerge. It uses a combination of fact, memoir, and dramatic license to tell its story, and I believe it does so with integrity. Certainly, the comprehensive investigations undertaken by The New York Times and a number of labor rights groups to document conditions in electronics manufacturing would seem to bear this out.

What I do is not journalism. The tools of the theater are not the same as the tools of journalism. For this reason, I regret that I allowed THIS AMERICAN LIFE to air an excerpt from my monologue. THIS AMERICAN LIFE is essentially a journalistic ­- not a theatrical ­- enterprise, and as such it operates under a different set of rules and expectations. But this is my only regret. I am proud that my work seems to have sparked a growing storm of attention and concern over the often appalling conditions under which many of the high-tech products we love so much are assembled in China.

This American Life is devoting the entirety of this week's episode to discussion of the fabrications present in the original report.

butvi wouls (Phil D.), Friday, 16 March 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link

Dear Friends,

As you may have read by now, the radio program This American Life—which aired a segment of Mike Daisey’s theatre monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs—has retracted the story due to what it calls fabrications in Mike’s tale. We wanted to let you know that The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs will run at Woolly Mammoth as planned from July 17-August 5, 2012.

curmudgeon, Monday, 19 March 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link

there's a big talk about this on the this american life c/d thread

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Monday, 19 March 2012 14:50 (twelve years ago) link

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buzza, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 07:09 (twelve years ago) link

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buzza, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 07:15 (twelve years ago) link

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Nicholas Pokémon (silby), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 13:14 (twelve years ago) link

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dayo, Monday, 2 April 2012 01:26 (twelve years ago) link

chance i'll actually end up watching the movie too

markers, Monday, 2 April 2012 01:33 (twelve years ago) link

revenge of the nerds

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 2 April 2012 01:34 (twelve years ago) link

actually, young jobs REALLY looks like a young howe gelb

Nascar Pony (stevie), Monday, 2 April 2012 06:46 (twelve years ago) link

eight months pass...

http://i.imgur.com/OnLAr.jpg

turds (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link

The only thing I see now is that disgusting foot.

this will surprise many (Nicole), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link

five months pass...
one month passes...

Trailer looks bad

http://youtu.be/SH1jKZwcS9Y

hewing to the status quo with great zealotry (DavidM), Saturday, 22 June 2013 16:59 (eleven years ago) link

yeah i'm guessing the sorkin one is going to be "better"

caek, Saturday, 22 June 2013 17:14 (eleven years ago) link

What I'm getting from that trailer is that Steve Jobs was a big fan of pussy.

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 22 June 2013 17:54 (eleven years ago) link

one month passes...

THE ORIGINAL REBEL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR6yMl2FZSQ

1:59 y'all

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 2 August 2013 21:38 (eleven years ago) link

PLUS: MACKLEMORE

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 2 August 2013 21:39 (eleven years ago) link

lol @ Josh Gad as Wozniak

Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Friday, 2 August 2013 21:44 (eleven years ago) link

Also I'm experiencing cognitive dissonance with "Can't Hold Us" in the trailer for a Steve Jobs biopic, since my primary association with that song is the Windows commercials that it scores.

Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Friday, 2 August 2013 21:45 (eleven years ago) link

they're reclaiming macklemore!

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 2 August 2013 21:48 (eleven years ago) link

they should just redo this and leave it at that: http://www.tubechop.com/watch/1371446

markers, Friday, 2 August 2013 21:48 (eleven years ago) link

Hah "It only takes one person to start a revolution".

Yeah Steve Jobs should've ditched that loser Wozniak guy, amiright?

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 2 August 2013 22:24 (eleven years ago) link

i think so

markers, Friday, 2 August 2013 22:25 (eleven years ago) link

I'd watch the Rifftrax version of it with suitable chemical augmentation.

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 2 August 2013 23:16 (eleven years ago) link

that christian bale meltdown on the set of terminator convinced me he's the one who should have had this role.

Philip Nunez, Friday, 2 August 2013 23:32 (eleven years ago) link

are you implying you are not fully satisfied with their choice of ashton kutcher??

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 3 August 2013 02:30 (eleven years ago) link

six months pass...

wow this movie has the potential to be even more boring and less cinematic than The Social Network!!

you are clinically deaf and should sell you iPod (stevie), Friday, 28 February 2014 07:25 (ten years ago) link

how was The Social Network not cinematic? did you want car chases?

The Buzzing of Summer Tweets (Noodle Vague), Friday, 28 February 2014 07:33 (ten years ago) link

yes. yes i did.

you are clinically deaf and should sell you iPod (stevie), Friday, 28 February 2014 07:45 (ten years ago) link

one month passes...

Lol

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/ex-iphone/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Mr. Jobs was notorious for throwing his weight around however he could. One person on the iPhone design team was also named Steve, which caused some confusion in meetings. Mr. Jobs sought to change this.

“At some point Steve Jobs got really frustrated with this and said ‘Guess what, you’re Margaret from now on,’” Mr. Tolmasky said. From there on, members of the team would always address the designer Steve as Margaret.

CarlosDP, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:48 (ten years ago) link

haven't gotten around to reading that yet, but good story

markers, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:59 (ten years ago) link


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