Is it O.K. to lie on the way to telling a greater truth? The short answer is also the right one.
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Ira Glass of “This American Life” broadcast a retraction of a program based on Mr. Daisey’s play.
No.
It’s worth examining that question now that we have learned about the lies perforating the excerpt of Mike Daisey’s one-man show on Apple’s manufacturing processes in China, broadcast in January on the weekly public radio show “This American Life.”
No one is suggesting that everything about Apple’s supply chain is suddenly hunky-dory, but the heroic narrative of a fearless theater artist taking on the biggest company in the world is now a pile of smoking rubble.