yeah nothing there about insulting word choices, lol... On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Eric Roberts < [email protected]> wrote:
> > At least he apologized right away when he was confronted instead of > dragging > it on for day before realizing his wallet was hemorrhaging... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dana [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 9:08 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Liar Liar Pants on Fire.... > > > yep, heard about that on NPR news earlier. Apparently the author said he > shouldn't have done it because This American Life is more journalistic that > theatric. Gee, ya think? I haven't looked at the specifics, but it seems to > me that even in theater, if you are making shocking allegations about > specific people or companies, it might fall into the category of this > little > thing they call slander. I mean, I know This American Life often runs > stories about events in people's lives rather than broader social events, > but still. They are presented as true. It's disappointing to hear about > this > kind of thing, because if I wanted a show that just made stuff up I > already have quite a selection to choose from. > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Yeah, presenting performance art as journalism is probably not the > > best idea. > > > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Cameron Childress > > <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > "This American Life has retracted its episode about working > > > conditions at Foxconn. Apple challenged the veracity of the > > > reporting in the piece when if first ran in January, and in an > > > episode set to air later today, the radio show will confirm that > > > Mike Daisey made up some of the most > > shocking > > > facts in his story." > > > > > > > > http://gizmodo.com/5893998/this-american-lifes-damning-foxconn-report- > > was-mostly-made-up > > > > > > Oops... > > > > > > ... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:348708 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
