"We're horrified to have let something like this onto public radio," Glass wrote.

Daisey was defiant in , but added: "What I do is not journalism."

"I stand by my work," he wrote. "My show is a theatrical piece whose goal is to create a human connection between our gorgeous devices and the brutal circumstances from which they emerge. It uses a combination of fact, memoir, and dramatic license to tell its story, and I believe it does so with integrity. Certainly, the comprehensive investigations undertaken by The New York Times and a number of labor rights groups to document conditions in electronics manufacturing would seem to bear this out."

Glass said that his show's fact-checkers had tried to contact Daisey's interpreter before the piece ran; Daisey misled them about being able to contact her.

"We're letting the audience know that too many of the details about the people he says he met are in dispute for us to stand by the story," Glass said. "I suspect that many things that Mike Daisey claims to have experienced personally did not actually happen, but listeners can judge for themselves."