Blog 3 Prompt
What is truth? Lies? Who gets to decide?
Montage of Daisey and Jobs from New York Magazine
Now things get complicated. You heard This American Life’s podcast focusing on Mike Daisey’s monologue-play and the issues it raises about Apple, China, worker rights, us as consumers, and globalization.
There is a reason I had you listen to that bootleg version. TAL scrubbed the podcast from its website and released “Retraction” in which they devoted a full hour to “retracting” the original podcast.
Was Mike Daisey an unethical liar? What, exactly, did he lie about, or not? What is art, journalism, or truth? Who decides? These are some of the questions this new chapter in the story presents.
Please listen now to “Retraction.” You can do so on-line here, or you can get it through iTunes or other distributor like Amazon. There is even a TAL app (iphone and droid).
In your post, discuss any issue the “Retraction” episode brings to mind. Be sure to include any links to other resources, media, or photographs. Write clearly, but also in your own voice. Please also discuss how your reaction is shaped by the information to which you have access and what that access says about truth, objective “facts” versus “opinions,” lies, meaning, knowledge, and any other aspect of these events that relates to how we know what we know (formally called epistemology- the study of knowing).
Your post should be at least three paragraphs.
More Relevant Information
Bucknell’s tech/no performance of the interrupted monologue (Fall 2012).
Original and Revised scripts (for free!) from Mike Daisey.
Related articles
- Sweet Dreams, iPhone (bizgovsoc6.wordpress.com)
- Mike Daisey, Apple, and Truth (mbanks.typepad.com)
- An Unfortunate Truth (bizgovsoc6.wordpress.com)
- Ignorance is Bliss (bizgovsoc8.wordpress.com)
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