Lies: The New Truthiness
New York Daily News TV critic David Hinckley inexplicably puts on his philosophical smoking jacket for this "Critic at Large" bit about the joys of telling lies. For example:
The truth is that lies sustain human life. You have air, you have water, you have lies. They all work together, and if you doubt that, try to find one major news story whose superstructure doesn't include at least one lie, and more likely a whole spider web of them.
Who is this guy, Gordon Gekko? Turns out he doesn't really mean that journalists lie so much — they only accidentally end up reporting the lies of their subjects. Don't worry, it only gets better, climaxing with a seamless transition between the story of Anne Frank and the comedy stylings of Lucille Ball.
