Posts Tagged ‘This American Life’

The Mike Daisey Almosts

One of the interesting results of the retraction of This American Life’s Mike Daisey monologue on the Foxconn factory in China is the shoulda/coulda/woulda-ing of the press corps, particularly those who have some experience covering tech, China, and/or Mike Daisey. After hearing the original broadcast, Marketplace’s China correspondent thought some of the details were odd, [...]

19th March 2012 | Tags: , , , , , ,
Posted in China, journalism | No Comments »



Enjoy it while it lasts: Woody, Ira, and the kindness of strangers

Inevitably, I will post at least one of the seemingly numerous videos available of Ira Glass telling people how to tell stories. But until then, I’ll stick with the video below. It’s a clip from a Woody Allen film. If you haven’t seen his Hannah and Her Sisters, I’m spoiling things a bit by putting [...]

6th April 2009 | Tags: , , , , , ,
Posted in journalism, life, movies | 5 Comments »