“Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory” is mesmerizing and flawlessly produced. It became the most-downloaded episode of This American Life. There was only one problem. In almost every salient detail, the story was a fabrication.

This is the funny thing about trust. Before Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory, I treated TAL as a fun (probably fictional) story show. Then, when they tried to do something with a bit more weight, they fucked it up.