The narrator seems to be saying that people are generally able to seperate truth from fiction. If this is true, then why even bring this subject up? If the people who listen to Keith Olberman are able to seperate fact from lies, why then attack the Olberman for his opinion? I think the facts differ from what is being discussed here. I don't think a 200 year old review of Coleridge about fictional poetry has anything to do with the state of modern day society which especially in America has become used to sitting on the sofa and absorbing all the hype being sold to them. They used to tell us cigarettes were good also! Alot of dead people weren't able to seperate fact from fiction. They sold us the belief that we were under imminent danger of being attacked by Iraq....alot of people are dead and our treasury is gone because "the people" were NOT able to seperate truth from fiction. So I believe that what Mr. Olberman is only trying to say is, why add fuel to the fire of a paranoid and frightened society anyway? Perhaps what Mr. Levinson is saying is that people in society 200 years ago were more able to seperate fact from fiction because they "read" and thought more with their own intellect. Today it has become so much easier to just let the television do our "thinking"....
Review of Olbermann's Suspension of Rationality about 24
ken girardey
Posted on January 18, 2007 at 08:37 AM
The narrator seems to be saying that people are generally able to seperate truth from fiction. If this is true, then why even bring this subject up? If the people who listen to Keith Olberman are able to seperate fact from lies, why then attack the Olberman for his opinion? I think the facts differ from what is being discussed here. I don't think a 200 year old review of Coleridge about fictional poetry has anything to do with the state of modern day society which especially in America has become used to sitting on the sofa and absorbing all the hype being sold to them. They used to tell us cigarettes were good also! Alot of dead people weren't able to seperate fact from fiction. They sold us the belief that we were under imminent danger of being attacked by Iraq....alot of people are dead and our treasury is gone because "the people" were NOT able to seperate truth from fiction. So I believe that what Mr. Olberman is only trying to say is, why add fuel to the fire of a paranoid and frightened society anyway? Perhaps what Mr. Levinson is saying is that people in society 200 years ago were more able to seperate fact from fiction because they "read" and thought more with their own intellect. Today it has become so much easier to just let the television do our "thinking"....