Pirates...

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Tue Jun 22 19:16:59 1999

>The only problem with this is that for the majority of the people who
>watched the show, what they saw was reality. We know better,
>but they don't. So now people all over have this view of how things
>went, and who these people are that at best is inaccurate, and at
>worst is blatantly wrong.

Exactly, imagine if the movie "Tora, Tora, Tora" had fictionalized an
invasion of Japan by the US that then prompted the Japanese to bomb Perl
Harbor. There is "artistic license" and there is "artistic license."

The technique is actually used in propoganda films quite a bit and is known
as "the big lie" and takes a huge untruth and wraps around it the very thin
veneer of truth so that the victim swallows the complete package.

--Chuck
Received on Tue Jun 22 1999 - 19:16:59 BST