# Will the Current Bad PR for Apple Come to Anything? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 10, 2012, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-current-bad-pr-for-apple-come-to-anything/612365 "2012-02-10T02:09:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-current-bad-pr-for-apple-come-to-anything/612365/41 "2012-03-19T23:14:32Z")
> [@Throatwarbler\_Mangrove](#): > > I don’t understand how being a “theatre geek” means he becomes incapable of telling the real world apaart from his imagination? The retracction episode was basically Glass asking him in 6 different ways: “We asked you whether this shit is true, you point blank told us that it was and now you’re saying it isn’t, so basically you lied to us the first time?” and Daisey saying “Yep, pretty much”. > > I don’t even understand the entertainment value of this "one man show’ at all. Basically he recounts a trip he made to China and some interviews he did with workers, that he all just fucking made up? That sounds like an amazing night out. Maybe I should do a one man show where I dramatically read Citigroup’s annual report, with the disclaimer that all the numbers are made up and there is in fact no useful information here? How do you think that will “connect with my audience”? what in the christ 😕 This is exactly why he keeps equivocating on the question of whether his story is true, because the story as he tells it, loses much of its impact if he admits it’s fiction. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-current-bad-pr-for-apple-come-to-anything/612365/42 "2012-03-20T01:12:10Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > Not incapable, exactly. More like so what, because This Is Theater. Like any geek, he reveres his specialty. Sometimes too much. Daniel Craig doesn’t get to kill people with impunity in real life, and if this jackass is incapable of distinguishing real life from the stage he should be committed until he figures it out. “I’m a geek, I can’t help it!” doesn’t wash as an excuse for this or any other bad behavior. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-current-bad-pr-for-apple-come-to-anything/612365/43 "2012-03-20T03:07:10Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > Not incapable, exactly. More like so what, because This Is Theater. Like any geek, he reveres his specialty. Sometimes too much. He may be a theater geek, but he got in way over his head when he agreed to perform his piece on _TAL_. It’s one thing to write an emotionally gripping story that tugs the heartstrings. It’s another to try to bamboozle an entire audience of smart people on a show that isn’t known for its sloppy journalism. He started out with the former, wound up on the latter, and killed his reputation in the process. He’s too notorious now to be taken seriously in any other medium, and in five years, he’ll be forgotten and irrelevant until someone does a Google search. Kinda like [James Frey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Frey). His piece (I don’t even know what to call it) is to corporate responsibility and treatment of workers what _West Side Story_ is to sociology or _Evita_ is to the history of Argentina. Sure, they’re good stories and you can learn something from them, but I’d be stupid if I relied on them as objective sources of information. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-current-bad-pr-for-apple-come-to-anything/612365.md?page=2)