The program makers a U.S. radio show pulled from China

This American Life issue hit the headlines in January when the broadcast mike daisey extract from the account when a visit to the factory.

international public radio said that daisey has learned monologue along with fabrication.

at the time of the meeting he was interviewed "him poisoned"

Episode, titled Mr. Daisey and Apple Factory, broadcast on national radio network NPR and then made headlines in this American Life. it hit 888.000 206.000 downloads and was streamed timers.

broadcast was followed by a series of articles in the New York Times saw apple work practices and production methods.

face increased scrutiny, the company later announced that it will allow third parties to audit the factory and released a list of suppliers.

One of the City

In a press release, this american life said that when asked, chinese translator mike daisey been denied one of the most dramatic moments of the show - Mr daisey claim to meet underage workers employed by Foxconn, manufacturer Apple.

Cathy Lee also said the interpreter, had called into doubt an account of a meeting with a man had been badly injured WHO while making iPads.

Daisey has been explained on the conditions of the "Stroke" from the tablet screen with a broken hand. workers who commented saying "this kind of magic"

but when he was questioned, Ms. Lee said that "it's a kind of magic"

This American Life said the fact that visible when a reporte of other public radio production - Marketplace American Public Media to be suspicious.

In his monologue daisey claims to have met with a group of workers who were poisoned on the iPhone assembly line with a chemical called n-hexane, said this american life.

while the apple supplier audit showed that incidents like this in a factory in china, but it is not in shenzhen where daisey visit.

In fact the incident Occurred in Suzhou, nearly 1.000 miles away, Marketplace reporter Rob Schmitz found.

'Horrified'

Daisey said he Stood by his work, but he added on his blog That he regretted the broadcast of a 39-minute monologue from his stage show.

"What I do is not journalism. The tools of the theater are not the same as the tools of journalism," he wrote. "

"This American Life is essentially a Journalistic - not a theatrical - enterprise, and Such as it operates under a different set of rules and expectations."

The show's host, Ira Glass, wrote in a personal blog post That in Retrospect he and his team were "horrified" to have broadcast Daisey's account.

"Daisey Lied to me and to This American Life producer Brian Redd during the fact-checking we did on the story, before it was broadcast," he wrote.

"That does not excuse the fact That We Never Should've put this on the water. In the end, this was our mistake."

Chris Green, a technology analyst at Davies Murphy Group, said That the impact of the show had been enormous.

"Was not Apple the only one to outsource production to China and Taiwan - but of the tech firms it did it on the largest scale, so this was a public relations nightmare for them" he said.

"The fact the program has been discredited Apple and others may help a bit, but we know other real problems with safety at suppliers have been uncovered."

Apple was not available for comment.

The New York Times of toll the BBC it stands by its reporting entirely.

source: bbc.co.uk