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Foxconn Report by This American Life is a Fake

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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Giant Robot Time: 3.16.12 – RISOGRAPH Printing Workshop this Sunday at GR2!

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DIVERSIONS

NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE

MONYO MONYO, JUDE BUFFUM, PAUL ROBERTSON,

FERIC, MEAT BUN, FRENCH, SEAN CHAO

We all have interests that takes us away. Our postcard image by Australian artist Paul Robertson is hyper dense and 8-bit influenced. Jude Buffum from Philadelphia crosses 8-bit art and social and pop culture commentary. Monyo Monyo from Japan creates wearable masks that are furry and powerful. Feric from Taiwan is known for his delicate and cyber-detailed pieces. Originally from Taiwan but now a resident of Los Angeles, Sean Chao creates astonishing dioramic worlds. French from England evokes metal music and its iconography. Meat Bun, our comrades from multiple pop up shops and Game Night events will display some of their iconic work. In attendance for the opening will be Paul Robertson, Sean Chao and the trio who make Meat Bun. View the exhibit.

 

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Nicely Done Jeremy Lin Viewpoint

Yes, it’s just a link to one article. It’s nicely thought out and written. Excerpt: “The son of Chinese immigrants, Vincent Chin looked plenty enough like a Japanese automotive job-stealer to his attackers that they took a baseball bat to his brain. People shuddered at this, but it was the white men’s sentence to probation and $3,000 in fines that made communities link arms and identities in protest. Before that, “Asian American” was mainly something that lefty radicals and academics called themselves; very little distinction had previously been made, even amongst those who looked the part, between being, say, Chinese American versus Chinese, or Asian American versus Oriental. It took the miscarriage of justice around a young man’s killing for the “Asian American” community to learn those distinctions, and for its members to recognize themselves in that name.” (ESPN – Erin Khue Ninh)
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