Tuesday, August 9, 2011

thoughts on the news of the day: is it right?

hmmm…..
            I’m not sure how I feel about another church posting on our facebook page (First Presbyterian Church Mountain Home).  It feels like an ambush.  But then again, I guess, why wouldn’t they feel OK about doing that?  I mean, it is a free and open page where anyone can post just about anything.  Now, if you ask me, that’s kinda scary.
            Is that right?  Has it come to that?  Are we so vulnerable in this techno-magic world that anything goes? Probably there is a way to block that sort of feedback; I am not sure what it is.   But I bet someone out there can tell me.
            I am not a Michelle Bachmann fan.  I will say that right up front.  But Newsweek magazine has a photo of her on its cover this week that makes her look, well, crazy.  Her eyes bug out as if she looks like she is off on another planet.  Is that right?  Does Newsweek have the right to do that to anyone?  I’m just asking ….
            Photo-shopping, that is, doctoring a photo to look like something it is not, is common place today.  Stylists for fashion magazines have been doing it for years, with and without our knowledge.  But does that make it right?
            A whole new system of ethics is coming our way. What is right and what is wrong is up for grabs right now and it’s up to the ethicists to figure it out for us.   Hopefully they will leave politics and self-serving opinions out of it because we sure do need their wisdom right about now.
            hmmm…..
           
           

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