The news has long bothered me for a fairly simple reason, it purports to inform us, but it usually winds up misleading us grotesquely. Not because the things the news reports are false, but because they are only a small slice of the truth. And if all we see on a regular basis is the most strange and shocking slices of the truth, in the process our picture of the whole truth has become badly distorted. So, today I thought it would be fun to pretend to be newscasters who do the opposite: report on the vast majority of the truth of any subject rather than only the most captivating exceptional cases.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Reverse News
The news has long bothered me for a fairly simple reason, it purports to inform us, but it usually winds up misleading us grotesquely. Not because the things the news reports are false, but because they are only a small slice of the truth. And if all we see on a regular basis is the most strange and shocking slices of the truth, in the process our picture of the whole truth has become badly distorted. So, today I thought it would be fun to pretend to be newscasters who do the opposite: report on the vast majority of the truth of any subject rather than only the most captivating exceptional cases.
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