How do you tell the genuine article from the fake? Exactly why do your senses and your common sense warn you that something is off? I have no idea, I just know that is so.
Be that a business swindler trying to pitch something to you, and you simply feel that the pitch is too good to be true. Like the developing story in the Danish media about a certain Stein Bagger business swindler for instance. Based on the simplistic success model of 'fake it until you make it'. Or a news rumour put forward by news spreaders on the journalistic market - also too good to be true - and just sounds off somehow. Or your average street vendor trying to pitch a fake designer bag or pair of sunglasses to you.
I recently came back from Barcelona, and I met a Senegalese street vendor along the habour eagerly pitching fake copies of designer sunglasses. And I smalltalked with him, wondering why people readily buy the stuff. 'It's cheap,' was his logic response. In my logic response, 'Too cheap to be true' - and my very reason for not buying the stuff.
Paradoxical News has pitched many stories from the news rumour market - but has done so knowingly in the appropriate medium, where the not-so-real stuff gets a space. I have played along, for long now. And have done so with the tongue-in-cheek approach, naming the medium accordingly. Although the process is getting a little tiresome compared to the real stuff. Is it my age and experience that blocks me from buying the fake stuff, I wonder? However, there are very real stories in PN as well. This very segment for instance. And the first person singular 'I' stories carrying thoughts more than events and news stories.
What I mean to say is that I have an accute sense of the non-sensical and fake stuff. So I am not defect for not 'buying the stuff' that is fake. I am simply a journalist and a realist with my common sense about me. It's the pitch that is defect. So whether it be to Stein Bagger, to the 'off' news rumour pitchers, or to the fake goods street vendors - I would like to yell at the top of my lungs: 'Look, I don't buy the stuff, because it is fake. Would you give it a rest?' Or come back, when you have the genuine article.
Be that a business swindler trying to pitch something to you, and you simply feel that the pitch is too good to be true. Like the developing story in the Danish media about a certain Stein Bagger business swindler for instance. Based on the simplistic success model of 'fake it until you make it'. Or a news rumour put forward by news spreaders on the journalistic market - also too good to be true - and just sounds off somehow. Or your average street vendor trying to pitch a fake designer bag or pair of sunglasses to you.
I recently came back from Barcelona, and I met a Senegalese street vendor along the habour eagerly pitching fake copies of designer sunglasses. And I smalltalked with him, wondering why people readily buy the stuff. 'It's cheap,' was his logic response. In my logic response, 'Too cheap to be true' - and my very reason for not buying the stuff.
Paradoxical News has pitched many stories from the news rumour market - but has done so knowingly in the appropriate medium, where the not-so-real stuff gets a space. I have played along, for long now. And have done so with the tongue-in-cheek approach, naming the medium accordingly. Although the process is getting a little tiresome compared to the real stuff. Is it my age and experience that blocks me from buying the fake stuff, I wonder? However, there are very real stories in PN as well. This very segment for instance. And the first person singular 'I' stories carrying thoughts more than events and news stories.
What I mean to say is that I have an accute sense of the non-sensical and fake stuff. So I am not defect for not 'buying the stuff' that is fake. I am simply a journalist and a realist with my common sense about me. It's the pitch that is defect. So whether it be to Stein Bagger, to the 'off' news rumour pitchers, or to the fake goods street vendors - I would like to yell at the top of my lungs: 'Look, I don't buy the stuff, because it is fake. Would you give it a rest?' Or come back, when you have the genuine article.