http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/3/20/mike-check-reading-bet... key quotes: ecib made this point in my original post, and I think its important http://hubski.com/pub?id=22563The costs of his violation have been enumerated across the Internet (James Fallows has made the argument that Daisey’s controversy will hurt the Western press and international worker-rights groups in China, in the most dammning damage account I’ve seen). This American Life’s reputation has been called into question, and the saga could render another blow to the public’s already waning confidence in journalists. More charitable journalism hounds (if such a thing existed) might also read the retraction as more proof of the profession’s interest in transparency and determination to correct mistakes.