David Sedaris is a humor writer who has a standing gig at National Public Radio news shows. His schtick is based on his array of personal experiences, such as the time he once worked in a department store as Santa’s elf. But NPR got burned when it turned out that Mike Daisey’s expose of conditions at an Apple Computer factory in China was largely made up. And now it has come out that some of Sedaris’s anecdotes–including his time as an elf–did not, strictly speaking, actually happen. Sedaris says his material is “real-ish.” So now NPR is undergoing a crisis of conscience about the extent to which they should fact-check Sedaris’s funny stories.
The David Sedaris dilemma: A fine line between ‘realish’ and real – The Washington Post.
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