Today at 4:00 PM EST, Brooke will host a one hour live chat about the recent This American Life retraction of their episode "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory." Brooke appeared on The Brian Lehrer Show this morning with Marketplace's Rob Schmitz to talk about the line between journalist, creative nonfiction and theater (audio is embedded below).

This article originally appeared in The Guardian

There are lies and there are lies and there are lies.

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Big Lie.

"OMG, your [homely] baby is beautiful!": small social lie.

And then, there is the highly debatable third category: lies in service of the greater truth.