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Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Rashômon
Tina Brown thinks challenging the truth laid down by the New York Times makes the world resemble Rashômon (via Gawker). Of course, her presidential candidate manages to have four opinions on every issue without complicating things with Kurosawa direction.
Tina Brown has seen the media future and she doesn't like it.
"The trouble with bloggers is that they've created a universe where everything you see is Rashomon," Brown said, referencing the 1950 Kurosawa classic about how we perceive reality.
"Because of the blogs, there is no final version of the truth and that can become genuinely muddying and muddling, because there's never any kind of closure on an issue. Do you believe the New York Times version of events about the swift boat, or will it go on and on continuously being challenged by the blogs?"
Cross-posted to the Flea.
Posted by Ghost of a flea on September 8, 2004 | Permalink
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When the NYT allows its credibility to be torn asunder as a result of bias and shoddy reporting, then the only option is to try to correct it. If NYT boosters like Tina Brown don't like to be fact-checked by bloggers--then get the facts right in the first place.
There is an economic cost to bad information, and people will seek good information. If the NYT is unable to provide good information, people will turn to alternate sources.
Posted by: RJ | 2004-09-08 9:43:54 AM
May the Divine Power intercede to deliver us from the horror of dissenting viewpoints.
Posted by: lrC | 2004-09-08 1:50:14 PM
To confront this Rashomon, can I suggest a Hidden Fortress manned by Yojimbo, Sanjuro and Red Beard and Seven more Samurai? It would protect us from High and Low, and is definitely better than the Lower Depths. There's more dignity than Ran-ing like The Idiot on the Throne of Blood.
Okay, I admit it, I watch too many Kurosawa movies.
Posted by: Scott | 2004-09-09 12:30:25 AM
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