When the producers of the radio program “This American Life” were told by Mike Daisey that it would not be possible to talk to Daisey’s interpreter to check the facts of his account of labor abuses by Apple factories in China, the producers should have ignored Daisey’s reassurances and taken other steps to verify the facts, writes Craig Silverman in a commentary for the Poynter Institute.
The producers ended up running a retraction of the program admitting that the content did not meet journalistic standards for the truth. -db
From a commentary for The Poynter Institute, March 19, 2012, by Craig Silverman.