On the Episode That Changed Ira Glass’s This American Life Forever. Or, On the Importance of Fact-Checking. “There was only one problem. In almost every salient detail, the story was a fabrication.”
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Oh wow I haven't thought about that episode in a while! Back then I made this: The Silence of Mike Daisey.
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