Retracting “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory.” A devastating hit piece which exposed Apple as a brutal taskmaster overseeing near-slavery conditions in its Chinese factories turns out to be… total bullspit. “I’m not going to say that I didn’t take a few shortcuts in my passion to be heard,” says the liar, “My mistake, the mistake I truly regret, is that I had it on your show as journalism, and it’s not journalism. It’s theater.” Well, that’s what most journ0lism is these days.
Author: Bonfire of the Absurdities
After 35 year career writing software for IBM mainframes, am now self-employed contractor thinking of joining a union and striking for higher wages. Cured morbid fear of heights when I learned to look at them as lengths standing on end. Uncompromising in refusal to accept browser cookies. Amateur investor who has accumulated a small fortune in the market after starting out years ago with a large one. For recreation, I run, hike, kayak and play tennis but will not consider synchronized swimming under any circumstances.
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