NevDull’s Take On Things

If a picture’s worth a thousand words…

December 2nd, 2009

…what’s a speculative simulation video worth?

This video from Youtube shows a Chinese television stations reports of the goings-on at Tiger Wood’s last week, including an animated simulation to illustrate what may have happened.

I haven’t gelled all of my thoughts on the matter. I have to assume that the people assembling speculation for a sensational news report will fail to entirely correct for or convey the existence of a bias in the facts and theories as reported. How much worse does it become when people feel like they’ve witnessed the event because they watched the simulation?

I don’t think that it matters much either way relative to this event, but maybe it’s time to consider the impact should this become commonplace.

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