Daisey, for his part, says his work was one of theater, not journalism, and the mistake was his for allowing This American Life to broadcast it as the latter. His statement is a lot shorter than CPM's so we'll post it in full:

"This American Life" has raised questions about the adaptation of AGONY/ECSTASY [Daisey's monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs] we created for their program. Here is my response: I stand by my work. 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. What I do is not journalism. The tools of the theater are not the same as the tools of journalism. For this reason, I regret that I allowed THIS AMERICAN LIFE to air an excerpt from my monologue. THIS AMERICAN LIFE is essentially a journalistic ­- not a theatrical ­- enterprise, and as such it operates under a different set of rules and expectations. But this is my only regret. I am proud that my work seems to have sparked a growing storm of attention and concern over the often appalling conditions under which many of the high-tech products we love so much are assembled in China.

Update, 2:32 p.m. EST: We've reached out to Daisey for comment and have yet to hear back from him. But he did speak with Schmitz and Glass, who pressed him on apparent misrepresentations in his story. CPM's statement points to falsehoods both small and large. It says Daisey did not tell the truth about the number of factories he visited, and the number of workers he spoke with.