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Has no one considered the possibility that this Chinese citizen, who lives and works in China, might not be well served by asserting the truth of Daisey's story
by aaronharnly 15y ago
Has no one considered the possibility that this Chinese citizen, who lives and works in China, might not be well served by asserting the truth of Daisey's story?
His apology seems to concede a fair amount of dramatization, and he didn't (in advance of hearing the Ira/Mike conversation) appear to assert the truth of those specific parts of the story. But supposing he did stand by some of these details, we'd have a he said/she said, with strong incentives on each side.
- rbarooah 15y agoAre you seriously suggesting that he was telling the truth the in the original piece, but is now lying in his retraction?
- tptacek 15y agoDaisey has himself conceded dishonesty (though he calls it "dramatic license").
- rhizome 15y agoTo follow that logic would be a worse case of he-said/she-said journalism than which has been lambasted for for years (and which arguably inspired NPR's recent statement of recommittment to actual journalism).