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An independent group, the Fair Labor Association, has started auditing Apple's Chinese supplier Foxconn after a request by Apple. The technology company last month disclosed a list of its suppliers for the iPhone, iPad and other popular gadgets for the first time amid growing criticism over labor and environmental practices, especially in China.

Friday's Wall Street Journal featured an article headlined "Measuring the Human Cost of an iPad Made in China," and what followed is a distressingly good example of the dangers of reporting the world from the perspective of revenue-maximizing alone.

This morning, I started getting notes from people saying that Apple (AAPL) had notified them of delays in shipping their newly purchased 27-inch iMacs. I chatted with an Apple rep online who told me that indeed there had been delays for shipments of the 27-inch quad-core models. However, the people...