Follow Up of the Day: Mike Daisey on This American Life's Retraction Episode

This American Life has just released its latest episode, where host Ira Glass confronts Mike Daisey about lies in Daisey's now-retracted report about working conditions at Apple manufacturer Foxconn, which aired on TAL in January. In the episode, Glass explained the reasoning behind the retraction thusly:
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