"My mistake, the mistake I truly regret, is that I had it on your show as journalism. And it's not journalism. It's theater."

As for the New York Times edit, a story Daisey wrote titled "Against Nostalgia" referred to an encounter he supposedly had with a man whose hand had been mangled manufacturing iPads. The Times now that Daisey has come clean and admitted he never actually met such a person.

Apple was hit with a lot of in its supply chain factories operated by Foxconn in China. The issue is not new.

For instance, in January, PCWorld covered a story about how 150 Foxconn workers staged a protest threatening to jump off a building if the company did not meet their compensation demands.

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