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.
"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 Shotgun.
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Posted by: Kathy Shaidle at September 8, 2004 11:30 AMBecause, of course, the "New York Times version" is, axiomatically, the correct, complete, and sufficient one. Why, then, would one need all those "bloggers" challenging it?
Yeesh.
Posted by: *** Dave at September 8, 2004 11:49 AMAnother media aristocrat telling us not to get above ourselves. Didn't she used to edit Vanity Fair, the magazine that thinks reviving royalty and aristocratic rule is a viable political program.
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