Getting in trouble
I derive no thrill from watching people getting into trouble and being found out.From my earliest memories of watching television and seeing a protagonist lie, try to cover it up, and then get caught, I would often just turn off the TV. Watching movies like Shattered Glass make me a little queasy.
I recently watched Match Point and had to shut it off, partly because of the trouble the protagonist faced but also because the movie was such a disappointing, out of touch retread of better Woody Allen movies.
This has something to do with my robust guilty conscience. Upon observing the things Harvey Keitel's character got up to in The Bad Lieutenant, my friend Sherman would say, "He's getting into so much trouble."
Anyway, here is another story of someone getting into trouble, in this case a Wired reporter who is alleged to have invented sources, created aliases to post on newsgroups favorable comments on his own work, and then watched the whole ball unravel with some simple editorial sleuthwork with e-mail source code.
While the story is cringe-worthy, it is good to see an organization be accountable to its customers.
See also: Wired News Writer Faked Info
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by Marty Barrett at Friday, August 11, 2006
2 Comments:
Match Point was the first new Woody Allen movie I've liked in quite a long time. When you say better, are you referring to Crimes and Misdemeanors?
..yes. He was not able to comunicate his newfound love for England and Scarlett adequately via his standard class-based, self-conscious vehicle. Everything seemed forced.
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