Was Mike Daisey wrong to make fiction from fact?
Mike Daisey's campaigning monologue about Apple may have succeeded as a play, but it failed as journalism. Does it matter if theatre based on real-life material takes dramatic licence?Some time ago I interviewed, for the BBC, a well-known showbusiness raconteur. The programme was running after a series of scandals about editorial accuracy, so a scrupulous producer applied a tape measure to every tall tale. The result…