Numerous folks have pointed out how This American Life's retraction of Mike Daisey's "reporting" on Apple resembles in some ways the recent rumbles and complaints toward John D'Agata's fabrications and fact-shifting in About a Mountain and The Lifespan of a Fact. Daisey, it seems, in making a claim to personal contacts and conversations that did not actually occur, agrees with John D'Agata that facts can be reshaped in order to make a nonfiction work more artful.
