Thursday, October 29, 2009
We're All Balloon Boys Now - WSJ.com
I think this column rings very true.
Skepticism appears to be the best defense and it has apparently been adopted by many.
It does seem wrong to doubt everything we see or hear; however, the abundance of con men and con jobs make it a necessary behavior...
Skepticism appears to be the best defense and it has apparently been adopted by many.
It does seem wrong to doubt everything we see or hear; however, the abundance of con men and con jobs make it a necessary behavior...
This is just part of a column by Dan Henninger in a recent Wall Street Journal:
"In 1938, Orson Welles caused a sensation when he did a 'reality' radio broadcast announcing a Martian invasion. Now we get the equivalent of a Martian invasion almost every day; or maybe it's every other hour.
One assumes the visuals in most TV commercials now are fake. Ten years ago it was fun to wonder how Chevy managed to airlift a truck onto a pencil-wide peak in Utah. Now you assume a geek at a computer did it. A semi-scandal broke out in the fashion world recently when it came to light that a Photoshopped ad from Ralph Lauren had made model Filippa Hamilton's head weirdly wider than her waist and hips.
This week the mainstream media have been learning the danger of living in a cut-and-paste world."
