There Is No Such Thing as a 'Larger Truth': This American Life's Rich History of Embellishment
John Cook · 03/21/12 02:35PMMike Daisey has been roundly and justly castigated for selling his bullshit stories about visiting the Foxconn complex in Shenzhen, China, to This American Life. But even some of his harshest critics are buying into the idea that, in some contexts—just not "journalistic ones"—it's OK to tell little lies in service of a "larger truth."