Saturday, March 13, 2010

Dear Critical Thinking, please come back

By now everyone with a television has been alerted to the truth bending of Bear Grylls' Man vs. Wild show. It's so much bigger than that. It's all around us, from circuses to the Discovery Channel to Grandpa's hunting magazines.
This months' Audubon magazine has an artice on nature photography that illuminates a type of deceit that I had never thought to be wary of.

http://http://www.audubonmagazine.org/incite/incite1003.html

The article gave examples of photographers capturing amazing shots of a fish jumping out of the water...because someone had poured battery acid into the water. It goes into wildlife farms where captive animals are kept for staging wildlife shots. I'm not going to summarize the article for you. Read it and make up your own mind.

Has integrity taken off with critical thinking? Perhaps they eloped somewhere nice, but it's time the honeymoon ended.


Can something be "even better than the real thing?" It may be an antiquated view, but I think not.