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In my many years of relying on The Weekly World News to bring me the stories others fear to report — "Boxer knocks opponent into last century," "Couple fall in love when they meet in tornado," "Carpal tuna syndrome" — I was distressed to read a small-print notification on the bottom of page two:
Damn lawyers! Besides, aren't we supposed to suspend disbelief? [Tags: weekly_world_news news media humor tuna batboy alien ed_anger] Posted
by D. Weinberger at May 29, 2006 08:23 AM
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In this case David, you need to suspend belief - because otherwise there would be no liability...thats all the lawyers are interested in...
Posted by: Dylan Barrell | May 29, 2006 10:01 PM
Oh, they just put that stuff in to appease Legal. It's still true, just like they say, that the earth isn't undergoing global warming... it's just menopause. (Wouldn't it be fun to write for them?)
Posted by: K.G. Schneider | May 30, 2006 02:18 PM
It is no fair about that.
You should adjust.
Maybe.
Posted by: Rcok | May 31, 2006 04:24 AM
David's right - to suspend disbelief is to accept something which you'd otherwise reject, so presumably suspending belief would involve a kind of phenomenological epoche or else an existentialist crise. Either that or you just wouldn't get out of bed in the morning, because you wouldn't be able to take anything for granted (presence of stairs, presence of bedroom floor, presence of feet on end of legs...)
Posted by: Phil | June 1, 2006 07:25 AM