Epic win

Fair enough...er...

I'm going to leave this here, in case you want to spend and interesting hour listening to it. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/454/mr-daisey-and-the-apple-factory

There has been a retraction on some of what was said, and the retraction is in another hour long show which is here http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/460/retraction

The retraction doesn't really cover any of the facts of what is happening, it's covering the fact that some of it didn't happen to Mr Daisy, and some of it has (as you say) already been addressed. In any case, I found it a good way to spend a few hours, and I'm just a lacky.

The "some of it that didn't happen to Mr Daisey" is pretty much all of it, but some of it is just pure fabrication (pun intended), see Gruber's points here:
http://daringfireball.net/2012/03/baby_from_the_bath_water

Using the phrase "their factory" above is kind of accusation by association (not sure you intended it as such) - Foxconn are contracted by Apple, they aren't the same company, and while Apple may be the largest and most prominent of tech companies to contract from Foxconn, pretty much every other tech company of note does too - these other companies' silence on the matter, compared to Apple's relative transparency, is to me far more enlightening than Daisey's stage act.

Please don't get me wrong, I'm not being an apologist at all for the kind of conditions/tragedies/human rights abuses that intevitably occur in factories like Foxconn's* - it's just that I think the spotlight should be on the double-ender of our throwaway consumerist society and the relentless, crushing drive for profit margin / RRP advantage between rival companies, rather than just blaming one of those companies.**

However, it's a deep and troubled inner monologue to have, on our society that turns over an enormous amount of silicon on a daily, throwaway cycle, expecting to buy it for less and less, and what that means for working conditions/the environment/ourselves. But tech companies and blogs aren't going to raise the issue, as they rely on the industries' continuation, health and the relentless drive for the next best thing. It's easier to bash the hell out of linkbait, on a company that guarantees attention if you can get a scoop.

*(I'm not a crusty hippy, my livelihood is heavily dependent on the tech industry)

**(Apple are naturally de rigeur for bashing at the moment, since their transition from underdog to emporer)