Jul 17, 2012 Hypothetical Questions Posed By the Internet This Week
Internet-news has a way of creating its own social gauge. I mean it’s always already meta-news, isn’t it. I wonder to this day how the OJ Simpson Trial would have been reported differently with the critical mass of conspirators via Twitter, and Buzzfeed right behind them. OJ later published “If I did it…” This is precisely the kind of hypothetical question the Internet is good at asking. Here are some of the hypothetical questions posed by the Internet this week. And a couple of them were even answered!
Why when I was your age… Would Kobe’s American Team defeat Jordan’s Dream Team at the Olympics if they played in their historic Olympic condition? ESPN tries to answer.
To be or not to be. That is the allegory. I’d say it’s a stretch even for Hollywood to co-opt the news in this way but The Internet asks us–by way of Rush Limbaugh–if Dark Knight Rises mightn’t be a veiled metaphor for Romney as capitalist antihero, and gosh if The Watch (a comedy about a neighborhood watch composed of imbeciles) isn’t the most epically mis-guided film to be released during the George Zimmerman trial for the murder of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin… DURING A NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH.
That’s pretty good for a girl. Can a beautiful blonde pregnant woman run a Fortune 500 Tech Company? YES. Without her looks being called out? ….no. (ps: Stats remain that only 16% of corporate leaders are female in the US. It’s less than a percent in Japan. SMH)
