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One of the biggest nightmares of making a magazine which must equal that of news or any journalistic media is a story that’s fake and you weren’t in on the joke. It’s being punked by a subject who tells you something that’s completely made up. It happens, but rarely on a scale that’s so large that a world stage gets unhinged when it’s outed. This happened with a recent episode of This American Life. Tons of people listened to it, and for what? Now it’s going to be a lesson in research, believing media and tweeting and Facebooking things you think are true. Much of this wasn’t. Granted, things might be factually true or it happened to someone else or in some other place and time, but in this case, it might not have happened the way it was presented. The most popular podcast for the show is now being retracted and perhaps just as large will be their next episode which will explain it all. Ira Glass is mad at the theater actor Mike Daisey. From Ira Glass, “The China correspondent for the public radio show Marketplace tracked down the interpreter that Daisey hired when he visited Shenzhen China. The interpreter disputed much of what Daisey has been saying on stage and on our show.” Mike Daisey the theater man contends that what he did was for theater, not journalism. He walks away with more publicity than ever. Some of it, bad. I’ve never heard of him until all of this news so go figure, he’s famous. (NY Times - This American Life Retracts)
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IPhone 4S Sales halted in Beijing, eggs and punches get thrown. Security decides to keep the crowd outside and now it’s only available online. Supposedly the fights were between scalpers and police. [MICgadget - iPhone 4S Bejiing] [youtube]UXqiGtmr7vc[/youtube]
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This episodes talks about Foxconn who make the Apple iPhone, it’s investigative and it comes from him seeing photos on his iPhone from a factory in China. He went to China to see that there are children working at the factory. There’s injured folks and more.
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The Steve Jobs biography reportedly is having brisk sales in Japan, but the cover is causing some minorproblems with the nit picky Apple fans who are channeling the ultimate pickiness of Steve Jobs himself. Would Jobs approve a cover like this? The English version cover is much more stark and has a large photo of jobs with almost no text much like some of the Apple packaging. The Japan version does have two volumes hence the Roman “I”, which is often the case for huge books including Haruki Murakami’s IQ84 which appears as one volume in the US. The reason for the cover change includes a) a sign off from the Author, b) the fact that Steve Jobs by name may be known in Japan, but face perhaps not. (WSJ – Steve Jobs Book)
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This logo was spread just a bit after Steve Jobs died. The guy behind it, is it really the guy in the photo? The truth is the fella who created it, did it without knowing about the already made logo. He’s quite open about communicating it, etc, but in the end, it’s all been done more than once before. The fella behind it named Jonathan Mak lives in Hong Kong and is 19 years old. It turns out the logo was done earlier by Chris Thornley, and you can see his at the link. Either way, people should leave the kid alone. It was a tribute. (Yahoo – Apple Bite)
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